&gt; By real autocompletion dropdowns, I mean dropdowns which are different from editing buffer.<p>Fair point, it&#x27;s my biggest gripe with Vim&#x27;s autocomplete--which I love. That being said when it works, it&#x27;s more efficient than any other autocomplete I&#x27;ve seen in a text editor, since it&#x27;s practically the shell&#x27;s autocomplete.<p>&gt; Basically you can do everything with text. You can even print out &quot;this is a placeholder for an image of a sad green frog looking at a computer screen&quot;. But actually displaying that picture is better ;)<p>Once again, valid reasoning, but that&#x27;s not the point. No one (at least I hope not) is seriously advocating TUI&#x27;s for graphic design, we&#x27;re talking about editing text, and that&#x27;s where Vim excels.