On Tue, 2023-11-14 at 13:26 -0600, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
What really irritates me about vi and its friends is that it throws you out of editing (insert) mode in order to save the file, and needs another key to come back in.
That's one thing I like about gvim, you can just click a save button. That and being able to use the mouse. And yet, you still have all the other keyboard-only things that traditional vi users want.
I'm not a hard-core user, but because I edit a lot of text files related to web-serving, I like an editor that fires up in a flash, and isn't over-simplified. Gvim fits that bill, and I can manage to use vim over ssh without a GUI when I need to fix things up, though I can never remember how to do cut and paste that way.