meow

I somewhat recently settled on using use-package and straight — I highly recommend this approach. You can get pretty far using what comes with emacs and adding a bit more. You can see how I do it in my emacs config[1] but it's a little bit special with meow[2] for a colemak keyboard. There's a youtube channel that I've skimmed[3] that helped me modernize my config by relying more on emacs' basic features. [1] https://github.com/green7ea/dotfiles/tree/master/.emacs.d [2] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow [3] https://www.youtube.com/c/SystemCrafters

Very excited to see parsing for ill-defined states! I like your naming scheme of using animal sounds, but just wanted to bring to your attention that Emacs already has a popular package named meow (for modal editing) https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

The article was apparently published in 2021 but meow has had a release as recently as October. https://github.com/meow-edit/meow There's also a Doom Emacs module: https://github.com/meow-edit/doom-meow This is HN submission is the first I've heard of meow but it looks interesting. One of the bigger problems I have with Doom is reading the docs for Emacs packages and the keybinds don't match. It's nice that someone took the time to make evil bindings but sometimes it's a struggle to remember where the bindings differ (I'm thinking of Magit in particular). Plus, object-verb command order just seems next level. I'm always using evil/vim visual mode anyway. My fear is losing muscle memory for using vi and vim in environments where there's no Emacs, especially not one with my special config.

I am also a big fan of hydras, but I use them more for workflow things like window movement, editing org tables or quicker navigation in org headings/trees and it complements my keybinding system in `meow`[1] (similar to Evil or the Kakoune/Helix text editing scheme). [1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

Emacs is whatever you want it to be, and it has wonderful modal editing packages such as evil-mode[1] - which surpasses the editing system from vi that it is based on - and Meow[2] 1. https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil 2. https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

Using meow:https://github.com/meow-edit/meow I actually got keybindings in Emacs that are helix-like, so I use helix for certain projects and Emacs for others. The muscle memory transfers well.

Thanks for the tip, meow looks interesting. I never got comfortable in evil-mode, but perhaps meow could be a gateway to trying emacs in anger. Still waiting for kakoune/helix mode for gnu readline... https://github.com/meow-edit/meow https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el

Also see Meow[1], [2], which adopts some ideas from god-mode. [1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow [2]: https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html

You have to go further for ideal IMO. Evil and evil-collection integrates pretty well, but Meow integrates perfectly and uses the action visible first approach. https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

2 stripe blue belt here! I used to use Vim for everything other than Java development and have now adopted Emacs in the same way. I am using it for Clojure and Common Lisp development along with org mode, irc, rss, git and file management I started with Evil mode and then moved to Xah fly keys before sticking to the emacs bindings. Having the caps lock key bound to CTRL helped me a lot. I don't know if it makes that much of a difference for Emacs but using the DVORAK layout has helped my fingers There are other bindings you can try like Meow or God mode but I don't know what the adoption rate is like for them. Emacs gives you the flexibility to set it up as you please. As others have mentioned, there may be other keyboard options that might be more helpful as well https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/xah-fly-ke

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow Modal editing with seamless emacs integration avoiding the need for evil-collection type packages.

Emacs has Meow which implements model editing with the Kakoune grammar: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

There's also Meow[1], which I currently use. You have to configure it first to suit your keyboard layout, but there are pre-built configs [2] [1] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow [2] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/blob/master/TUTORIAL.org#k...

Lol—that's so wrong. Someone's already got an issue open: https://github.com/erikw/vim-keybindings-everywhere-the-ulti... Evil has been fantastic. That said, I'm intrigued by Meow: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow Meow inverts the order of commands: instead of vim's verb-count-object order, meow does object-count-verb, if I'm remember David Wilson's video right. This lets it pop up an avy-like overlay (I think it calls them "rulers") so you can see more clearly exactly how far of an extent an action is going to have. Kinda cool. Might try it some day.