>I can tell you from experience that it wouldn't take long to learn enough vim to make you look back on that preference and wonder why you didn't learn sooner.
I can tell you from my experience that after spending a fair amount of time to learn vi, I gave up.
Not everyone has the same mental models as you do. Having a separate input and beep mode was something my brain never internalized. Using it was always painfully slow as switching modes never became automatic for me.
Fair point. But if it helps you feel any better I gave up several times and just barely got by with editing (very slowly) when I didn't have alternatives. What finally motivated me into overcoming my mental block was regular expressions of all things. When I realized how powerful (despite being flaky and inconsistent) regexes were in the Windows editors I'd tried I couldn't live without them and it didn't take long before I realized how much better vim was than even that.
I can tell you from my experience that after spending a fair amount of time to learn vi, I gave up.
Not everyone has the same mental models as you do. Having a separate input and beep mode was something my brain never internalized. Using it was always painfully slow as switching modes never became automatic for me.