dotfiles

Here's a rebuttal, why kakoune's model might not be better than vim: https://github.com/noctuid/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/editin...

Helix is interesting but I don't really gel with its editing language (subject + verb instead of verb + subject like (n)vim's). Happy to discuss what I think is lacking in more detail, but basically: the premise of 'you can see what you're about to operate on before you do the action' is satisfied for me by visual mode, and I like macros better than multiple cursors. So I don't want a (subjectively) less efficient editing language for these features. I think I generally agree with the complaints in [1], with the addition that I don't want to have to chord (press shift in the case of Kakoune, I forget what helix does here) to extend a selection. I wish they'd add a Vi mode. ;) [1] https://github.com/noctuid/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/editin...

Here is an interesting take on why the kakoune approach may not be an improvement over vim. Definitely well thought out. https://github.com/noctuid/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/editin...

I vastly prefer the Vim way of action+selection to kakoune way of selection+action. Here is a short write-up (not mine) about why kakoune model is not that appealing [1]. So helix is not for me. My ideal editor would be a modern re-implementation of the Vim way of doing things, probably using different keys, probably thought-out more, probably more light-weight. But for some reason no editor wants to go there. They either break from Vim's model (kakoune, helix) or follow Vim along with all it's flaws (Neovim, Vis). [1]: https://github.com/noctuid/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/editin...

> I tried migrating to neovim a lot of times, but their syntax highlighting is always so damn broken even with a plain vimrc that I stopped bothering anymore. I haven't encountered highlighting issues in neovim, but the treesitter feature in the upcoming neovim 0.5 improves highlighting a lot. (It's a plugin at the moment that requires a bit of configuration. This is the simplest setup explanation I have found: https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/iw9nx5/moonfly_nigh... ) I tried kakoune out for a while but missed Vim's window management, had the same struggle fighting muscle memory that you describe, missed the ecosystem from Vim, and I think some of the criticisms of Kakoune here are also valid: https://github.com/noctuid/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/editin....

I found this analysis interesting https://github.com/noctuid/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/editin...