Why does everyone think that people would only want to use Vi or Emacs because they want to pretend to be leet? I think that once you learn one of these, they really are easier to use.
The trend in modern editors of involving the mouse in more and more aspects of user input is ridiculous. If you think about it, the mouse is only really useful when the input domain involves some kind of pseudo-continuous (x,y) coordinate system. For example, drawing (manipulation of pixels in a matrix) and text-selection (highlighting characters arranged in terms of row, column) really benefit from mouse input. However, things like menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes are just made up excuses to use the mouse. These are all just hacks that map a set of discrete input options onto regions of a coordinate plane. While the objects themselves may be called intuitive (as in they are analogous to real world forms of input, such as push buttons), employing them for input is completely counter-intuitive, as it is a very round-about way of doing things.