i realise it's hard for non vim users to understand why some ppl use vim, but here is someone trying to explain it:
"My preference for emacs boils down to the fact that it doesn't force me to use a mouse. A mouse is a pseudoanalog device that suffers from all the control-theory anomalies like overshoot and oscillation, plus lack of haptic confirmation. Using the mouse forces my hands off the home row, forces my eyes off my cursor (to the target of a gesture). The mouse and all its control-theory ephemera are a source of sheer agony. They cause me to hate my computer and to tire quickly from any use of it. Emacs, however, lets me focus my mind, keep my hands in an efficient pose, lets me look at my work, gives me digital feedback (press a physical keyboard button, see a result, no overshoot and oscillation) and enables longer hours in a state of pleasant flow. It's not Emacs specifically, but any computer tool that helps me avoid mousing. Along with mousing goes all those proprietary binary formats for documents: anything but ASCII (or, begrudgingly, UTF-8) must be banned. Long-live Emacs, org-mode, org-table, org-babel, LaTeX, git, and everything that can be represented in plain text. There is a special ring in Dante's inferno for the inventor of the mouse and for the legions of GUI designers that built all the World's software around it." https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/r1s3k2/lex_fridman_and_neal_stephenson_talking_about/
no one is asking anyone to agree, this is just how some people feel
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