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This is possibly not a good question for SO, but it's been bugging me for years , and Google didn't know, so let's give it a shot, as it does affect my programming work on weekly basis: I often find myself in situation where one char is missing, like "=" instead of "==", a missing space, surrounding something with quotes/brackets, etc. So, why doesn't vim have a proper command to insert a single character? By proper I mean, supports count and repeating with . . What is the rationale, and what is the correct usage pattern that I am missing, which makes this feature unnecessary? I seem to need the all the time, so there must be some reason it has not been added to original vi already. I know adding a simple basic keybinding like :nmap <Space> i_<Esc>r is easy enough, but when doing just a quick edit in a new environment, that's rather inconvenient, and this simple version does not work quite properly anyway. PS. If there in fact is a default binding to insert just one char with total two keystrokes and remain in command mode, similar to r to replace one char with two keystrokes, I promise a bounty of 100 to the first answer which tells me what it is.

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