I’m really impressed by Helix and would love to use it, but re-wiring Vim muscle memory developed over a decade or using it feels such a pain. The problem is also not even that if I stop using Helix I’ll have to re-learn Vim bindings, but the fact that I also use Vim bindings whenever I open VSCode, too.
The subtle differences are both good (many things out of Vim work out of the box in Helix) and painful (the ones that don’t give an awkward feeling.
Awkward take on that is that I think if Helix came up a completely different key bindings it would be easier to switch to…
The subtle differences are both good (many things out of Vim work out of the box in Helix) and painful (the ones that don’t give an awkward feeling.
Awkward take on that is that I think if Helix came up a completely different key bindings it would be easier to switch to…
Edit: the differences are not way too dramatic but slightly annoying since many of those are very frequent actions - https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Migrating-from-Vi...