vim-rsi VS vim-unimpaired

that however may lead to suffering. You will have to change a lot of defaults and this can make you unable to work with default Vim. Try out https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi and see if that will suffice.

I use vim.rsi by te legendary tpope.

You can you this plugin to get the same mappings in insert mode for Vim:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi

You may be able to emulate it with cnoremap. See vim-rsi which is the set -o emacs version of what you want (but it also applies in insert mode).

I heavily rely on tpope/vim-rsi, which will provide you with to hop to the end of the line in insert mode

Look no further than the vim plugin master himself, Tim Pope: https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi

I would just define whatever "standard text-editing keyboard shortcuts" you want in insert mode, and then just use insert mode as your "vim for note-taking". Kind of like Tim Pope's RSI but with the "standard" key bindings you want instead of bindings based on Emacs/readline.

I don't think it moves blocks, but I utilize the venerable vim-unimpaired for basic text movement (and for inserting empty lines from normal mode).

vim-unimpaired gives a mapping for that for ] (and [ to insert an empty lines above the cursor).

I use https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired for this.

Is it possible to install a Vim plugin (like https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired/tree/master)?

HJKL for movement, then mapped arrow keys to this (requires unimpaired): " Normal mode: indent or move line nmap [e nmap ]e nmap << nmap >> " Visual mode: indent or move selection vmap [egv vmap ]egv vmap >gv

Just now I was looking at the manual entry for vim-unimpaired, since I couldn't remember the incantation for swapping two lines. (It's ]e and [e for swap forward and swap backward.)

Switch buffers with :b or the ]b [b bindings from unimpaired.

and a nice toggle remap that I found here to edit Markdown without conceal: vim.keymap.set("n", "tc", ":setlocal =&conceallevel ? 'conceallevel=0' : 'conceallevel=2'", { desc = "[T]oggle [C]onceallevel"} )

imo there are even few plugin authors who actually understand this well, and certainly no distro author does. Some of the few examples of good "vim philosophy" plugins are vim-sneak and vim-unimpaired.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired. I still use it a lot and it’s one of the few remaining vimscript plug-ins I have. It is also quite slow to load. It would be fantastic to have a Lua equivalent.