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Vim users laughing that they can get by on the cheapest tier.
I never use my mouse at all in vim
You just burn your hands out faster with the higher numbers of up/down motions to get the work done.
Have you ever learned about the following in VIM:
H,M,L,22H, ...,: vertical cursor placementzt,z0,zb: vertical scroll positioning0,$,gm,gM: horizontal cursor placementw,e,b: word based cursor movementSimply holding
jorkat times also works, even more so with a decently high key repeat rate.Of course there's a lot more: https://vimhelp.org/motion.txt.html
The trick is to only learn a couple new movement mappings at a time and use them during one's workflow for a while, up until they feel ingrained. Then repeat, iteratively building up one's movement skills in VIM.
One can say many things about VIM, but not that learning it's movement mappings will make your required APM (let alone mouse clicks) go up to "get stuff done". Honestly, once a basic set of these movements has been learned, any other editor without them will feel like a drag.