I wish I could switch to a completely slop-free editor without compromising my workflow too much.

Helix would be a great alternative: Its mappings seem a bit more consistent than Vim’s, also it has Tree-sitter, LSP and fuzzy pickers already built-in. But it lacks some features (digraphs, extensibility, folding – in that order).

I also had a look at Kakoune, which also seems alright, but I don’t like that tabs and splits are delegated to the terminal emulator, a multiplexer or window manager. I respect that decision, but I’d prefer that feature to be built-in.

For now, I’ll stick to Neovim. At least they have a policy that makes LLM users check and sanitise the generated code (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-assisted-work), although I’d prefer if they’d outright ban it.

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verb->noun vs selection->action

I think helix's model is often superior, but there's already too much muscle memory to make it worthwhile.

One could achieve similar workflow in vim by just using visual mode, which I do use quite a lot.
It would make sense to remap it on home row. Where should I remap it? I don't use `s`, `f` that much. But maybe I should use `f` more, together with `t`. On the other hand substitute doesn't seem very useful to me and I never use it.

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