@scimon @cstross regardless of how it got there, vim fits the way my brain works today (and I came to it from TextMate, which was non-modal and extremely chord-happy). It's initially very weird, but after giving it some time (and a lot of handholding from my pair partner) I realized that calling it "normal mode" is a huge clue that Something Important Is Here :) For the vast majority of my workflow, I'm just moving around; typing entire words one character at a time is the exception.