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For some people (like me), re-teaching muscle memory is a huge battle that takes years. Switching to an editor where you can't use the mouse as a crutch until you learn it is a non-starter.



Next time you're on an airplane and have nothing to do, but have access to a laptop, consider firing up `vimtutor`. I think you might underestimate how much time it takes to build up muscle memory in a new system. Not saying you'll be a wizard by the time you get off the flight, but it might surprise you how far you get!


vim has both terminal and gui builds. The latter supports the mouse.


Even the terminal build supports the mouse. `set mouse=a`


I use vim as my daily driver. Just want to make it clear to people that even vim with mouse support is not going to be a drop in replacement for vscode/atom/sublime. You're still going to have a hare time being productive in it for a good while until you learn the keybinds and train your muscle-memory




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