evil-snipe VS meow

I think evil-snipe is pretty similar. Maybe avy-goto-char-2 is also worth a look?

evil-snipe: fast 2-char search, optionally overrides f/F and t/T to work on multiple lines

If you want to minimize the number of times you have to press ';', the evil-snipe package lets you the same thing with a 2 character search instead of one. So with that package installed, if you have a line containing "HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK" and you want to get to the 'e' at the end of 'response', you'd press se., and your cursor goes right to it. (The package is included in Doom Emacs and is maintained by the same developer.)

If you install evil-snipe, it'll take over the S key for quick 2-character searching. (How often does anyone use the substitute command anyway?). It also makes the T and F commands work better (You can repeat searches by just pressing the key again. So you'd avoid having to use a modifier to reach "," or ";").

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.