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What are your greener pastures?

helix is pretty nice if you’re willing to challenge your traditional vim editing model. vim is action -> selection. helix is selection -> action. Beyond that helix feels like a modern vim. LSP natively supported. DAP as well. Very little configuration and bootstrapping to wade through.

What does that shift in paradigm give you over Visual Mode in Vim?

My 2 cents to this as a helix user.

1. it's just nice to see your selection before u do any action.

2. There's not benefit to the new model, either you like it more or like it less, why does everything have to give a benefit? Maybe it's just about the preference.

3. Helix requires less than 50 Lines of TOML to configure, to me this is well worth it, as with neovim, i easily needed like ... 300 Lines of Lua code? Something like this.

Switched to emacs via doom emacs about three years ago and haven’t looked back!

I was a big vim user back before VSCode, so I’m happy being back in my obscure editor hole.

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