Hello from another similar project!

[tombh]

I made a plugin for this too! https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode I've only just seen your project from the Hacker News thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39008533 I'm going to pore over your code and see where we can share ideas.

So glad to see there are other people out there with a similar view on Vim.

[SebastianMuskalla]

Thanks to your comment here, I realized that the thread on Hacker News exists. Pretty cool that something that I did a few years ago for fun now has sparked a discussion with 350+ comments ... even if not all of them are positive 😄

I have to admit that I currently barely use vim at all. If you find something useful in my config files, feel free to use it!

[ylluminate]

Being an emacs user and just having the ability to have a more sane vi option if/when need arises on servers and otherwise is nice. I have hated vi for about 25 years now and your work @SebastianMuskalla and @tombh are a real blessing to have in the holster. (Not that I don't know commands already sufficiently to use vi[m] if needed, but I dislike it and have resisted learning more than very rudimentary functionality.) 😋

[tombh]

Exactly! It's been decades for me too, and while I definitely know enough vi commands to get by, it's just not my thing. There are so many other nice things about, well nvim for me, that are great. I'm a senior software engineer and am perfectly productive with just conventional keybindings 💪