On: The language of Vim

[jff]

And you don't have to swap-to-disk to start writing a command in Vim-speek?

[darksaints → jff]

No.

EDIT: This isn't to say that vim is the only solution to this problem.

[pekk → jff]

Of course not, do you have to swap-to-disk to start moving files around in your shell or file management app?