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I learned the chords very quickly, but everyone works differently. What kind of feedback exactly would you expect from it? I can't immediately think of anything that would make it much better. I guess animations could help, but then they might just be distracting.

I think the main thing people get confused by besides the chording is the teleporting of the cursor, but then you realize it's actually really useful once you get used to it (at least I did).

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> What kind of feedback exactly would you expect from it?

I don't know exactly; this is one of those things where I'd have to implement some things and play around to see what works. Something like some text popping up maybe? I don't know. More advanced users can always just disable these sort of things (I also set up my Vim to not show "-- INSERT --" because at this point it's never helpful for me and it looks a bit nicer this way, but obviously for loads of people it's a very helpful thing).

A cursor change on the beginning of the chord would be the most obvious feedback. Maybe something like [1-] over the cursor, showing up the pressed key?

Fair enough.

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