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I don’t think that this list is supposed to be an accurate representation of how people typically use vim. More likely this list was compiled precisely because these uses are somewhat non-standard / non-obvious and therefore worth sharing. Having said that, I do believe that using external tools is much more idiomatic for Vim than Emacs.

I never pipe buffers, but I do use sed regex replacement pretty often. Like many other vim aspects I always feel it’s clunky though: vim is a _text_ editor when I want it to be a _code_ editor. I don’t operate on paragraphs or regular expressions, I operate on functions and identifiers and imports.

It's one aspect of using vim, to use the s or g commands efficiently IMO. But it's not as important as using the regular command + movement vim language stuff.