• Multiple cursors/selections instead of visual block mode
• Structural regular expressions instead of Ex mode
• Lua instead of Vimscript
• POSIX Extended Regular Expressions instead of a custom, non-standard variation
• Newline addressability
• Cursor positioning when leaving insert mode
• Search direction of n and N
• Behavior of gn and gN in Normal mode
• Searching with t and T
• Behavior of %
• Modular design