I tried switching 2 different times now from neovim (with Lazyvim), and I can’t break the muscle memory. Neovim has become an IDE in the terminal for me, and it does more than I need it to
As with anything, breaking muscle memory takes a lot of will power, as well as time. 😅
Take it from someone who went from regular QWERTY row-staggered keyboards to a split column-staggered keyboard with Colemak-DH. Went from 117 words per minute, to 20. It was brutal. Took me a few minutes to reply with simple sentences at work. Still not up to full speed a year later. But the ergonomics are worth it.
Same with Helix IMO. It includes the kitchen sink, and the Selection Editing paradigm makes so much more sense to me compared to macros in *vim. Because it clicked immediately with me, it didn’t take long to get used to it. Been using it professionally and at home for about 2 years.
Found the issue
Helix is nice, speaking of which.
I believe upvoting isn’t enough
Helix ROCKS
Yeah baby! 👊
Shout out helix!! Big fan!
🧬❤️ Yeah!
Helix for terminal has been fantastic; I like GUIs so for me Zed is my “S-Tier”.
Yes, Zed allows you to turn off the Agentic LLM integration off in
settings.json:{ "disable_ai": true }There’s also this.
https://gram.liten.app/terms/
I tried switching 2 different times now from neovim (with Lazyvim), and I can’t break the muscle memory. Neovim has become an IDE in the terminal for me, and it does more than I need it to
As with anything, breaking muscle memory takes a lot of will power, as well as time. 😅
Take it from someone who went from regular QWERTY row-staggered keyboards to a split column-staggered keyboard with Colemak-DH. Went from 117 words per minute, to 20. It was brutal. Took me a few minutes to reply with simple sentences at work. Still not up to full speed a year later. But the ergonomics are worth it.
Same with Helix IMO. It includes the kitchen sink, and the Selection Editing paradigm makes so much more sense to me compared to macros in *vim. Because it clicked immediately with me, it didn’t take long to get used to it. Been using it professionally and at home for about 2 years.
I’ll have to check it out, I heard Zed is great too
Zed even has Helix bindings! But I recommend Gram, in that case, which is a fork of Zed with all the AI bullshit ripped out. 👍👊
Yeah but I am using the AI bullshit so that wouldn’t be a plus
Oh. Ouch. Then I wish you good luck in finding a better alternative than VS Code! 🖖
Thanks fam