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In my classification of editors: 1. Orthodox. Mostly focused on looks and integrations. 2. Modal, Vim improvement. Focus on keeping basic Vim keybindings with minor improvements. 3. Modal, rethinking Vim approach. Ki falls into the third category which I constantly monitor.
So Ed Visual Mode Improved Improved!
Vim-like (terminal and VSCode extension) that prioritizes syntax-based navigation. Comparison to Vim and Helix: https://ki-editor.org/docs/comparison#user-content-fn-1
That comparison table is strange and sometimes wrong. Neovim for example detects and updates external file changes by default. And the coherence of the keybindings in Ki is "Great" bit vim/helix: > As you can see, there's no single logical categorization for these keymaps, they are either lowercase-uppercase, normal-alt, left-right bracket, or outright unexplainable. Word, End, Back, Change Word and even Change Inner…
Is there a good tutorial for some of these advanced text editing features?
In particular I’d like to get platform independent shortcuts / key bindings. I use both windows and MacOS daily, and it throws off my muscle memory for shortcuts like “go to beginning of line”
In my classification of editors: 1. Orthodox. Mostly focused on looks and integrations. 2. Modal, Vim improvement. Focus on keeping basic Vim keybindings with minor improvements. 3. Modal, rethinking Vim approach. Ki falls into the third category which I constantly monitor.
Vim-like (terminal and VSCode extension) that prioritizes syntax-based navigation. Comparison to Vim and Helix: https://ki-editor.org/docs/comparison#user-content-fn-1
That comparison table is strange and sometimes wrong. Neovim for example detects and updates external file changes by default. And the coherence of the keybindings in Ki is "Great" bit vim/helix: > As you can see, there's no single logical categorization for these keymaps, they are either lowercase-uppercase, normal-alt, left-right bracket, or outright unexplainable. Word, End, Back, Change Word and even Change Inner…
Just over a year ago I decided to switch to Neovim. The reason for switching was personal; I was struggling with what I'll call "clutter" in other tools and I wanted a tool that would reinforce, at least lightly, a mode of working that promoted focus on what I was working on, while making it easy to reference other files without loading up my editor with tabs and other visual clutter (buttons/menus) I don't care about most of the time.
I took the advice I seemed to bump into repeatedly: try out vim mode in my current editor before making the plunge.
I really struggled at first. It felt wildly foreign. All the shortcuts were nowhere near to the world I was familiar with.
As I was about to give up, I ran into some advice that was along the lines of "stop trying to memorize shortcuts and start thinking in terms of what you want to achieve" (words and motions in vim-speak).
Your example of [C]hange [I]nner is a great one; that one in particular was life changing. Sure there are some words and motions that do require memorization, but so many others just flow naturally. And once you start thinking in actions, it's easy to see how they can layer on top of each other in really elegant ways.
I'm not even here trying to tout vim-like editors, I'd wager there are many editors that have some semblance of this kind of interaction, but rather to reiterate there's a shift from a PoV of function vs. goal.
Again, I don't think this is "the right way" but rather one of many perspectives that works in context with the phenomenology of me.
Vim-like (terminal and VSCode extension) that prioritizes syntax-based navigation. Comparison to Vim and Helix: https://ki-editor.org/docs/comparison#user-content-fn-1
That comparison table is strange and sometimes wrong. Neovim for example detects and updates external file changes by default. And the coherence of the keybindings in Ki is "Great" bit vim/helix: > As you can see, there's no single logical categorization for these keymaps, they are either lowercase-uppercase, normal-alt, left-right bracket, or outright unexplainable. Word, End, Back, Change Word and even Change Inner…
Hey, one of the creators here, I actually daily drove Neovim for two years, before switching to Helix for a while, then finally Ki.
> multi-cursor is a useless feature
I was a Neovim macro user until I figured out how insane that was compared to multi-cursor after using Helix.
I'll wait till an Emacs package is available
Why not a vim plugin