Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim

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  • kakoune

    mawww's experiment for a better code editor

  • I've been using Vim for years, but if there was one thing I could change, it would be the verb-noun order. The Kakoune[1] editor behaves mostly like Vim, but where Vim has `dw` as "delete word", Kakoune has it backwards: `wd`.

    It might sound minor, but by placing the range first, Kakoune can give a preview of what will be changed. The longer or more complicated the command, the more this feature shines.

    Strictly better as far as I know. A shame my muscle memory, and all default installations, are still stuck with Vim.

    [1] https://kakoune.org/

  • helix

    A post-modern modal text editor.

  • I've been test driving the Helix editor (mostly because of its out-of-the-box support for a wide range of LSP servers), and it adopts the kakoune style of keybindings. Like you, my muscle memory is very strongly in the Vim camp, and is hard to change :)

    https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

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