Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

One thing I think a lot of the naysayers here are missing is that you don't sit down and read a book on vim -- or even this stackoverflow answer -- and immediately expect to begin using all you've learned. It takes time. And it's painful at first. But it's a lot like gripping a tennis racket correctly or properly positioning your fingers at a piano. Your default method is indubitably the most comfortable -- by definition -- but the…

"The "Zen" of vi is that you're speaking a language. The initial y is a verb. The statement yy is a synonym for y_" ok, so what is y underscore?

I sure learned a ton from this book on vi disguised as a StackOverflow answer.

Not necessarily in line with what the SO question is asking for, but this is by far the best thing I have ever added to my .vimrc: " make space execute the 'q' macro (press qq to start recording, q to stop, " then [space] to execute. super convenient) noremap <Space> @q This streamlines making and executing macros to such a degree that I'll often do that instead of merely making 3 or 4 complex series of edits manually. You…