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Definitely if you program, and quite possibly if you don't, using a 'real' editor like vim, or emacs, is almost as much of an increase in productivity over something like textpad as touch-typing is over hunt-and-peck.
That sentence was awkward...
Using vim fluently : Textpad :: touch-typing : hunt-and-peck.
It's extremely frustrating returning to a 'normal' editor and trying to find the shortcut key for 'regex substitution'. ;)
Well, in Notepad, the keyboard shortcut for Find/Replace is Ctrl-H...
I'm referring to my favourite feature of vim: regex substitution. Commands like :%s:(\w+)(.*\s+)(\w+)$:\3\2\1:
Yeah, old-fashioned find/replace just isn't as versatile as regular expressions. :(
Obligatory XKCD link.