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Did a quick run with it and turned on vi mode from the settings menu.

The first thing I found awkward about it is that prompt fields are always initiated in normal mode. So if you want to execute a command with : or interact with an element using f, you have to manually activate insert mode first before being able to enter text into the prompt.

I'm sure there's a way to change this since the entire thing is in Lisp, but it sure is an odd default.

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if it's a fresh field, I think I might turn out to prefer them always initialised the same way for the sake of my muscle memory.

Now, that may not be true of -me- in practice, but it's definitely possible for whoever did implement that part to genuinely prefer it that way.

Of course, if the implementer wasn't a vi user, who fucking knows, vi is kinda baroque as fuck if you run face first into it without preparation so "the person who picked that default was trying to do vi users a solid but had to guess at some bits" is totally viable too.

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