I have been thinking about switching and currently use evil-mode but in default emacs, so I can switch to vim bindings if I want to but when I open a new buffer it&#x27;s in emacs mode, however to me modal editing can be less productive<p>I mean, vim&#x27;s modal language is more expressive, and you can get things done faster, but if I am coding I want most of my brain power to be on the algorithm I write, and I find that sometimes coming up with cool vim motions to do what I need to do instead of up-up-up-delete-up-up-up-delete etc. pulls me out of the zone a little bit because I have to engage my brain more.<p>For pure fun editing yes, I agree that modal editing is cool, and it is quite nice to be able to do complex text changes without really ever using the cursor keys, but when I am deeply concentrating I don&#x27;t know, I don&#x27;t care if I take two seconds longer to do something because I use the cursor keys because in the end those two seconds are seconds I use to think about the problem at hand anyways, which is not &quot;how do I get to that spot and do that text change as quickly as possible&quot;<p>Not sure, maybe if I give it more time it will become more automatic, but after a few weeks of mostly vim&#x2F;evil-mode editing I still reach for emacs when doing &quot;serious work&quot;