[devth]

I think you're missing the point that many developers choose vim over "modern" editors because of its highly efficient text-editing capabilities. The same points could be made about emacs.

As to "user friendly" - depends on who the user is. Yes, this text box is infinitely more user friendly than vim when your mom is using it.

That a foot-pedal might make vim more usable has nothing to do with vim being outdated or unusable. Is your operating system broken / outdated because one might find a food pedal driving "alt-tab" more usable or fun?

[robomartin]

OK, I'll bite. Please educate me. Give me a list of the "highly efficient text-editing capabilities".

[9diov]

Seeing is believing. Here is a video of an experienced Vim user: http://vimeo.com/8569257 . Note that the video is not sped up.

[devth]

If you know vim I'd assume you already know the answer. If you know vim and don't know the answer, I guess vim just doesn't work for you. But for many others, it does. I'm not going to enumerate what's already covered in endless blog posts, SO answers, books, IRC logs, and .vimrcs.

[sofal]

Start here: http://www.vim.org/docs.php