I am always trying to see if I can switch over to Kakoune -- I love the fact that the syntax is more uniform. But there are a couple of things that just don't

I am always trying to see if I can switch over to Kakoune -- I love the fact that the syntax is more uniform. But there are a couple of things that just don't work for me and my brain can't make it work. Multi-select is one -- it seems to me to be a fringe case that I rarely use, but it is core to kak and causes confusion every time I need to <space> out of that mode. The other is the fact that the cursor is always on a character (rather than admitting an "end-of-line" state is a distinct state), combined with the fact that a non-select "mode" is not a mode at all, but is a one-character selection. While I admit that this is more uniform, it means that the behavior of "delete the current line" is odd; "xd" will (select the current line) and (delete it). But if the line is blank then this won't work, because x will advance the selection (since the current line is already implicitly selected as a one-character end-of-line selection) to the next line. I like the plugin model, but I think that relying on tmux for the splitting will eventually be a liability that we'll need to unwind in favor of a native splitting mechanic. The Vim project drawer model is too powerful to rely on unreliable interactions with an independent system.