> I do not think I am missing anything either

How could you possibility know that unless you're familiar with Vim?

I played with it and do not think I need it.

I don’t think there’s any reason why you have to learn Vi/Vim. I think someone could go their whole career without that. That seems like a perfectly legitimate choice to me.

…but, I learned vi somewhere between less running on MSDOS and an embedded programming course at uni in the 90s.

I’ve used the those shortcuts in database clients, shells and web browsers, etc. ever since.

That’s a long time and a lot of value. It’s payed off so much that I don’t really remember if it was difficult to learn; I just use the keyboard and get the edits I want without much thought.

Being able to know something like that and bring it with you across operating systems has been useful.

I’m pretty sure it will still be useful in twenty years time.

>"Being able to know something like that and bring it with you across operating systems has been useful."

I did not say it is not useful for people who use it. I imagine for them it gets the job done perfectly. We do not have to be all the same.

Sorry I hope it came across in my message but I totally agree with you.

We most definitely do not need to all use the same tools for the job. Vive la différence.

No time like the present. Give it a try. Even if you just use it for editing /etc files it’s much more efficient than nano.

Don’t be intimidated by the huge feature set. I’ve been using it practically daily for 25 years and I still only use a small fraction of the available commands.

>"Give it a try"

I have. Not my cup of tea. Small file I edit in nano / whatever else. Anything serious is remote editing using some IDE. The terminal I use also has SSH file browser where you can click on file and edit it locally using any editor. It will be saved back to where it came from.