>>I can't stop to think about the right semantics about what I want to do
After the initial learning process, you don't think about the right semantics of what you want to do. Learning vim's normal mode really is very analogous to learning to touch type. In most text editors, when you want to delete a word, you don't really think about hitting backspace a whole bunch of times. Of course, you did think about hitting backspace when you first started. With vim, you don't really think about hitting dw (or cw), you just do it. You did your thinking a while ago, and now it's just how your fingers move.
Of course, there are plenty of valid reasons why vim might not be for you, so please don't take my comment as a "No, you really should learn vim" piece of evangelism.
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>>I can't stop to think about the right semantics about what I want to do
After the initial learning process, you don't think about the right semantics of what you want to do. Learning vim's normal mode really is very analogous to learning to touch type. In most text editors, when you want to delete a word, you don't really think about hitting backspace a whole bunch of times. Of course, you did think about hitting backspace when you first started. With vim, you don't really think about hitting dw (or cw), you just do it. You did your thinking a while ago, and now it's just how your fingers move.
Of course, there are plenty of valid reasons why vim might not be for you, so please don't take my comment as a "No, you really should learn vim" piece of evangelism.