Re:Libghostty 1.0
by vinceguidry on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:53PM
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evil-mode... sigh, i wanted to love you so much.
if you're, as you say, coming off of decades of vi muscle memory, i'm sure evil can do the job of not making you relearn anything just fine.
if you've, like me, trained your muscles to relearn quickly, you'll eventually want modal editing that actually works the way emacs works. and evil... is hacks on top of hacks, you pay a severe price for the seemingly seamless integration.
when i wanted to customize evil, i quickly realized that what i wanted wasn't vi in emacs, it was modal editing in emacs. i landed on boon, then used that until codex took over.
if you're, as you say, coming off of decades of vi muscle memory, i'm sure evil can do the job of not making you relearn anything just fine.
if you've, like me, trained your muscles to relearn quickly, you'll eventually want modal editing that actually works the way emacs works. and evil... is hacks on top of hacks, you pay a severe price for the seemingly seamless integration.
when i wanted to customize evil, i quickly realized that what i wanted wasn't vi in emacs, it was modal editing in emacs. i landed on boon, then used that until codex took over.
https://github.com/jyp/boon
now, i have my own editor that i use when i can't trust the clanker, though i suppose it would be a lot less work to just use nvim.