I don't really disagree that there's a big difference to vim (if not I don't think I'd find interesting, at the same time it can be painful) - but for what it i

I don't really disagree that there's a big difference to vim (if not I don't think I'd find interesting, at the same time it can be painful) - but for what it is worth - there's a "view" minor mode: https://docs.helix-editor.com/keymap.html#view-mode https://docs.helix-editor.com/keymap.html#view-mode As for select->act, I think this is (probably) worth it for the gain in discoverability (mainly from (any) select - then space for context menu/help). And while you're right that helix is much more visual select-to-end-of-file;delete - is just vged. Personally I still think there might be need for some "quicker" actions, like dG or dd an yy - but it's not obvious how they would fit with the "good parts" of helix. Maybe via a prefix-like command in normal-mode, eg: ",d" for "delete line"?