Can you clarify which costs you are willing to pay/sacrifice to avoid use of arrows ?
Actually I'm just trying to follow the best vim practices and it's really hard for me to get used to h/j/k/l combination after working with some other text editors. That's why I'm asking how vim gurus work the most efficient way in insert mode... BTW, i type English symbols without looking at the keyboard(we call it "blind typing" in Russia) and the basic position of my right hand is on j/k/l/; buttons, that's why it's kinda hard to get used to switch to h/j/k/l position. I wonder if anybody remaps h/j/k/l => j/k/l/; and ; => h ;)
Yakov
-- Best regards, Pavel