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You mean like yy versus ctrl+c? You can definitely use a Vim browser/OS extension but Vim does it that way because the creator, I suppose, perceived that his user interface is better than what's already there. And I tend to agree. I don't need uniformity if it'll be inefficient.



vi and emacs don’t follow desktop conventions because they predate desktop conventions (and vim of course follows vi)




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