doct VS meow

Doct! Writing org capture templates is a PITA.

For such a compelx logic in templates, I recommend (function function-returning-the-template) templates. Or you can explore https://github.com/progfolio/doct

https://github.com/progfolio/doct implements a way for templates to inherit from a parent group or template. There were plans to use doct in org-roam early on, but I no longer contribute to the project and I think it has continued down the path of using its own extensions to capture templates.

I use doct which I would advise to use as well if you want to write your templates more clean

also see: https://github.com/progfolio/doct for org-capture definition sugar

I have a capture template for Waiting For items, examples: * Waiting For ** WAITING Dan the Book man send me an invoice [[mu4e:msgid:[email protected]][Re: Looking for great books of the western world]] [2022-02-25 Fri] ** RECEIVED Doct maintainer respond to my [[https://github.com/progfolio/doct/issues/33][support query]] [2022-02-27 Sun] ** RECEIVED Dok van Putten respond to my [[mu4e:msgid:[email protected]][request RE Covid booster shot]] [2022-02-25 Fri]

https://github.com/progfolio/doct#hooks

Using meow:https://github.com/meow-edit/meow I actually got keybindings in Emacs that are helix-like, so I use helix for certain projects and Emacs for others.

The muscle memory transfers well.

Thanks for the tip, meow looks interesting. I never got comfortable in evil-mode, but perhaps meow could be a gateway to trying emacs in anger.

Still waiting for kakoune/helix mode for gnu readline...

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el

Also see Meow[1], [2], which adopts some ideas from god-mode.

[1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

[2]: https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html

You have to go further for ideal IMO.

Evil and evil-collection integrates pretty well, but Meow integrates perfectly and uses the action visible first approach.

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

I think I'd rather hope for meow over Evil. It's close to Evil but embraces more of emacs' default bindings for calling commands.

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

Modal editing with seamless emacs integration avoiding the need for evil-collection type packages.

Repeat action (evil handles this very nicely). see: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/discussions/414

There's also Meow[1], which I currently use. You have to configure it first to suit your keyboard layout, but there are pre-built configs [2]

[1] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

I was thinking about this a little more and Meow has something known as keypad mode that basically lets you call key combinations then return to Normal mode. It behaves a lot like god-mode. I just tested it out and if you install Meow you can call keypad-mode from insert and then automatically return to insert mode.