Vim is touch-typing on steroids

Re:Vim is touch-typing on steroids by jzelinskie on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:52AM (#34365408)

I've struggled with this since basically nvim started supporting LSP and few months back switched to Helix. LSP just works the way it should in vim. Sure, I am slowly rebuilding muscle memory for the Kakoune-style bindings, but it's honestly not much of a leap for having the plugins you'd install built into the editor in a cohesive way (e.g. LSP, bufferline, git gutters, unimpaired bindings).

I'm honestly shocked at how fantastic Helix is and it makes me wonder if all the toil of inheriting vim was worth it for the neovim project.

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Re:Vim is touch-typing on steroids by jatins on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:22AM (#34365588)

Gave Helix a try recently and liked it. Much better out of box experience.

Something like a readymade nvim config should ideally be able to provide similar experience but it's hard to not get caught up in the the quest to get it _just right_

Plus Vim keybindings are widely available in popular editors/IDEs but I think Helix bindings will take a while to get there.

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