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Originally Posted by Jellby
And even faster than <Esc>:wq<Enter>  |
Touché
I am not one of people that have to save a keystroke, whatever the cost. What *I* like about Vim is its support for Regular Expressions, scripting language, macros, and commands like :g, :v, :s. Also the way how the commands combine with "objects" (such as "A Line", "a parenthesis", "A string up to /whatever", "A Sentence", "A Comment"). Oh ... and syntax highlighting that harnesses the full power of Regular Expressions engine.
I also like that it can remember *long* history of commands and strings you have searched for.
The capabilities of Vim are so huge that everybody can find something special and unique there.
An illustration. Comand <Esc>:help index<Enter> brings out an index of all EX commands, scripting commands, normal mode commands, objects, roughly one line per command. The file has 1600 lines ;-) And those 1599 lines are without descriptions of built-in functions, options, variables and Regular Expressions metacharacters.
If that is not enough for you, start looking at Emacs, or, even better its competitor X-Emacs ;-). Recently there is even Vi mode for Emacs, called Viper.