embrace.el VS meow

https://github.com/paldepind/composable.el https://github.com/cute-jumper/embrace.el

For changing, deleting or adding Latex environments or other delimiters around text I use embrace instead of something like your change-env. With some customization to better support Latex it works pretty much like change-env, only it can't handle labels, and it's also useful generally for any kind of delimiter (punctuation, html tags etc) across Emacs.

- Embrace (the ``xah-insert`` family of commands are not powerful enough for parentheses editing imho, and most of them are extremely useless). I've managed to configure Embrace to behave almost exactly like XFK, just with a wider range of features.

You can try these packages. A bit outdated, but I hope it works: https://github.com/cute-jumper/embrace.el

https://github.com/cute-jumper/embrace.el This may be what you want. I like it a lot. It's very configurable, comes with a Hydra-like interface but you can also just use the commands in your own keymap, and has a lot of capabilities.

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.