I generally remap to swap caps lock with left control. Having control on the home row makes Ctrl shortcuts way less of a contortion act.

Useful in general but especially so on laptop keyboards.

There hasn’t been a truck sold under the Dodge brand in over a decade at this point.

It’s a pun, not an ad. Dodged a bullet.

vi isn’t a text editor as much as it’s a text manipulation language.

It has a syntax, grammar, idioms, and, yes, a learning curve.

But once you learn it, it’s as close to a brain-computer interface as I’ve experienced. You start thinking about edits as chainable operations and it literally becomes muscle memory – if you ask someone experienced with vi how they just did a complex sequence of edits, chances are they’ll have to stop and consciously walk through it because they literally didn’t have to think about it the first time.