vim-submode VS nvim-libmodal

I used kana/vim-submode for a little while but it broke all the time so I gave up on it. How's your experience with hydra.nvim so far? Do you find that the mode doesn't "stick" properly or will for a bit but then it breaks out if you add a custom command that does too much? That was my experience with vim-submode

Also I should note this type of mappings can be achieved with https://github.com/kana/vim-submode. I've been using it for a while now, maybe I will replace it with hydra.

There are plugins that do this vim-submode nvim-libmodal for example . So it's possible at least to some extent.

vim-submode does exactly what you need. Here's how I use it to create a "resize" submode.

There is a fairly old plugin called submode that does something similar to this.

Only one submode can be currently active, yeah. You can enter new submodes from within others but only one will be intractable at a time.

Maybe I'm alone in it, but I actually have liked VimDoc so far for detailed documentation, because of its structure and conventions. You can typically just copy-paste a few templates from a register and insert your relevant data as needed. As for right-aligning new variables, there's always :h right-align or just foregoing it altogether. The spacing is for look rather than function.

I'm glad to see more development in the user-mode space! I made nvim-libmodal which has layers that do something similar to this, but it seems this particular type of feature is less popular in the Vim community than in Emacs.

There are plugins that do this vim-submode nvim-libmodal for example . So it's possible at least to some extent.

Thanks! This looks like what I'm looking for, actually. From the issues, I found nvim-libmodal and vim-libmodal, which seem more actively maintained. I'll look into them!

Worth a look, but it really doesn't do much aside from adding a couple convenience commands and some modes for markdown manipulation and snippet generation.