> I fully expect Helix to replace Vim, Neovim, and Kakoune for most users in the long run. I feel like I am definitely not in the "most users" group here. >

> I fully expect Helix to replace Vim, Neovim, and Kakoune for most users in the long run. I feel like I am definitely not in the "most users" group here. > syntax highlighting ... IDE-like functionality > Those are by far the most important features for a text editor to have. The most important features for me are the ability to navigate around and manipulate whatever's in the buffer(s) efficiently. I'm a 30 year vi/elvis/vim user and ... I'm not going to be able to use this. The deviations from vim's keybindings are much too widespread and tbh I find improved syntax highlighting and (especially) IDE-like functionality significantly too weak a draw to invest any effort in learning the Helix way - only to context switch between local Helix and remote vi(m) throughout my day anyway. I tried, really I did. Opened up a file I'm actively working on. First thing I needed was `dd` and to my horror it didn't delete a line, but two characters. Turns out vim's `x` is Helix's `d` - except not quite; `5d` doesn't do what `5x` did, in fact the 5 does ... nothing? OK fine, well, I regularly use `V` to highlight groups lines and delete those (or pipe them through my equalprg, or `:'<,'>!`) so I tried that ... nope. Though imagine my surprise when I tried `5x` and it highlighted 5 lines. Why didn't 5 apply to `d` but did to `x`? I tried `:r!<some cmd>` but alas, no `:r` and in fact no `:!`. All these examples are things I do tons of times every day. So I read the "Migrating from vim"[0] document really hoping there was a "activate vim compatibility mode" thing but instead all I saw were the new sequences I'd need to learn, especially ones which require more keypresses such as: go to line first non-blank character: vim: ^ helix: gs go to line end: vim: $ helix: gl delete to line end: vim: D helix: vgld or t<ret>d Investigating more, I found `:insert-output` is the same as `:r!` - tried to map the latter to the former to no avail. I kept finding other things that pissed me off just while I was editing the config file (with helix itself). I want to turn off all the menus which pop up everywhere as soon as I hit `:`. I hated that every time I typed a double quote, it inserted two - I literally never want that, in any language, ever. So many showstoppers for me, which is a shame. Perhaps I could configure the hell out of it - going against what many other folk are proclaiming as sensible, sane defaults - but then I'm back to where I came in. All the effort to make it be like vim except with some syntax stuff I don't really need... no sale. [0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Migrating-from-Vim https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Migrating-from-Vi...