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My daily driver is emacs with evil. Is Helix’s modal editing worth learning?

• laerus 3y ago
  Helix's modal editing is based on Kakoune's modal editing which is like an evolution to Vim's modal editing. You can think of it as being always in selection (visual) mode. https://github.com/mawww/kakoune?tab=readme-ov-file#selections https://github.com/mawww/kakoune?tab=readme-ov-file#selectio...
• frankjr 3y ago
  It couldn't hurt to try a different editing paradigm but as a daily Helix user but I wouldn't switch over just for that. It's different, not better or worse than Vim's.
• myaccountonhn 3y ago
  On eMacs there’s kakoune.el and meow that you can try out.
  • e12e 3y ago
    Thanks for the tip, meow looks interesting. I never got comfortable in evil-mode, but perhaps meow could be a gateway to trying emacs in anger. Still waiting for kakoune/helix mode for gnu readline... https://github.com/meow-edit/meow https://github.com/meow-edit/meow https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el
• e12e 3y ago
  I moved to helix after using vim/neovim for a long time. I much prefer helix' kakoune-inspired object>verb/select>action to vi(m) verb>object. As others have said, I recommend giving it a try, eg with the tutorial. That said - if you enjoy the view from the emacs mountain top, you might find helix hill to be too small - helix is not an operating system. I prefer it that way, others might not.