You might like kakoune, a vim-like editor which focuses on interactivity: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune https://github.com/mawww/kakoune It flips around a

You might like kakoune, a vim-like editor which focuses on interactivity: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune https://github.com/mawww/kakoune It flips around a few of vim's operations (like for example, to delete a word, you do 'wd' and not 'dw'). This allows it to highlight the text before performing an operation, which makes what you're doing much clearer.