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Re:Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights by diffrinse on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @04:41PM (#44575594)
I terribly need a vim-like with Helix all-in-one comprehensiveness. Neovim distributions are too loosely coupled and always have some odd sharp edge. Vim and its interfaces needs some rethinking anyway, but keep Action-Object modal orientation.
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Re:Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights by diffrinse on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @04:44PM (#44575616)
Maybe Evil-Helix[0] is what's called for. Still seems like it has lots of edges.

[0]https://github.com/usagi-flow/evil-helix

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Re:Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights by meindnoch on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @04:43PM (#44575615)
What is Action-Object modal orientation?
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Re:Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights by diffrinse on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @04:46PM (#44575641)
Yeah that's not a good way of describing, its more like Verb-Direction-Subject, e.g. `d3f(` means "delete up to the 3rd opening paren"; `2f.` means "move cursor to the 2nd found '.' character"; but there are exceptions when the subject is implicit, like `5j` means "Move down 5 physical lines".

Helix reverses bindings so that subject is first and verb is second

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