Hacker News Reader

Here, this will help: https://gist.github.com/nifl/1178878

(Emacs user happily using Evil mode since 2011 or so)

Not really. I already know that Vim can be used as a difficult-to-remember editing language.

My point is that in practice the number of situations where that is better than normal editing with multiple cursors is so few that it doesn't get close to the threshold of being worth committing to memory.

That gist is rather long and rambling so I only skimmed it, but it seems to list commands you can do in Vim rather than real life editing situations that they are especially good at.

That's a clear case of the Blub paradox, man... Multiple cursors can be useful, but the Vim editing model goes way beyond that. If you're not interested, that's cool, but it's really your loss.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com