> - You can't click on where you want the cursor to move to. You must 
> manually move the cursor around using several million arrow key presses.

I can use the mouse even on the text-mode vim over a remote ssh connection.

> - You can't cut and paste blocks of text.

Of course you can. It's just called 'yank' and doesn't use the system 
clipboard by default. You can also use the mouse to select the block 
before copying. On Windows you can use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for consistency.

> - You can't change the display to fit more than 80 characters on the 
> screen.

Yes you can. On the GUI, you resize the window. On text-mode on an 
decent console, you resize the window (that includes a putty window 
connected to a remote copmuter). On text-mode on Windows command prompt, 
you can't resize it (that's a Windows flaw), but you can change the 
column count manually with :set columns=100; I just tried it and it 
works on Windoze too. Who would use text-mode on Windows anyway?

> - You can't have multiple files open at once. (Well, unless you count 
> using virtual terminals.)

Vim can split the window, and show different files on each. It also has 
tabs on the GUI version; but I never tried that on text-mode. Split 
windows definitely works (and if your console supports mouse, you can 
resize the split by dragging too).

> - You can't realistically do syntax hilighting. (Well, again, I suppose 
> theoretically you could - but with only 8 colours available, how good is 
> that going to look?)

Consoles have 16 colors usually, not 8. Some Unix consoles support 4096. 
Vim can use all 16 million colors on the GUI, but do you *really* need 
them? Probably not. The default color schemes would be happy on 8-bit color.

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