zsh-vi-mode VS athame

And zsh-vi-mode

Thank you for your answer, I'm using zsh and zsh-vi-mode, and, at least in my experience, it works GREAT!

Here's a random endorsement: have you tried this improved vi-mode plugin for zsh? The built-in mode is good, but the plugin adds some of the commands that I missed. https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode

My following recommendation does not address your original question, but you might be interested into it. Since a year or so I use a plugin for ZSH which enhances the vim like capabilities on the commandline: https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode And additionally in normal mode vv will open up vim for editing this commandline and a :wq would go back with the updated line. Not using myself, but cool to have.

Vi mode was not enough for me, so I installed a ZSH plugin with extended Vim features: https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode

Yeah, I can't imagine working without it. There's also a more feature-packed vi-mode (since the zsh vi-mode lacks some basic bindings).

What does ngs do regarding text input... using readline like bash does? Or your own implementation? https://github.com/ardagnir/athame sounds so good for my vim-washed computerbrain. I imagine you don't want to embed NeoVim in your interactive shell (or do you????), but I'm wishing of that being provided in my next era dreamed-of shell <3

vi-mode... perhaps https://github.com/ardagnir/athame ?? perhaps embedding neovim??? but at least the basic modal editing that readline provides.

https://github.com/ardagnir/athame is an interesting looking project, I'd love to have that kind of vimability but am far too maxed out with configuring my tooling so I settle for whatever vi plugin came with oh-my-zsh.

None of these are major criticisms. But I'm wondering if others have also experienced them. I'm also wondering if anybody has found something better than your shell's native vim mode. For example, athame, which sounds great but has gotten very dusty in recent years.

Oh, I misunderstood "commandline editor". To compensate, can I offer this: https://github.com/ardagnir/athame

Athame does this with Vim. I've made a couple of attempts at doing the same thing with Neovim but never made it to the point where it became actually usable (there's a number of issues to overcome, e.g. bash statically linking readline so you can't LD_PREALOAD your own readline replacement, neovim not being very happy with single-line UIs...).

Athame patches readline to be vim-y, but that's usually unnecessary since most shells support vi keybindings. This might be better, since it is truly a vim session (and not emulation), but I haven't used it so idk.

You can test too https://github.com/ardagnir/athame