Also, this isn't at all original to me, but it's quite striking: thinking in terms of a distinction between command and insert mode has changed, for the better, the way I think about writing (and not just writing code). [7/N]
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You will not be surprised to learn that all of these, and many more, are out-of-the-box, one- or two-keystroke commands in Vim (and other such text editors). (OK, (iii) is two keystrokes plus the text you're searching for.) [6/N]
You already knew that "power user" text editors exist. But perhaps it helps to think of them as tools for taking all the ways that Word gently breaks you out of the metaphysics of pen and paper (e.g., what's close to what?), and going to eleven. [7/N]
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Now imagine similar augmentations for copy/pasting, deleting, and everything else you can do in Word but can't with pen and paper (including at the meta-level: there's a one-keystroke "repeat the last command I gave, whatever that is"). That's what modern editors give you. [8/N]
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What I find interesting and revealing is that getting all these superpowers is that I find them so much more valuable when I'm writing computer code than when I'm writing English (though it's useful in the latter case too). I have only partial explanations here. [9/9]
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