I'd only recommend Helix (or kakoune) to someone willing to spend time learning keybindings. -- I do put helix in the same bucket as zellij as "exciting upcomin

I'd only recommend Helix (or kakoune) to someone willing to spend time learning keybindings. -- I do put helix in the same bucket as zellij as "exciting upcoming tools which are nice out of the box". which-key (from emacs) is excellent, and I wish more programs adopted the idiom. I'd say in Helix's case, it's good for helping discover the long tail of features you don't use often. It'd be a struggle to use without learning some set of navigation/editing. Without having used it, micro https://github.com/zyedidia/micro https://github.com/zyedidia/micro seems like it's a nano alternative to take a look at, too.