[Devagamster]

That's interesting that you say that. To you is it the nifty-ness of it or the functionality? I'm considering new features now that the issue tidal wave has calmed down and trying to prioritize which ideas to tackle next.

[setr]

Both. Nifty-ness feels somehow fun, or rather enjoyable to watch. Functionally this solves a very small but ever-present issue with using vim; perhaps most importantly, the animation is sufficiently fast to be actually unobtrusive, a very rare feat for most such UX changes, and absolutely vital to it's potential to be useful.

It is perhaps the single most impressive text editing visual design change I've ever seen (maybe second to kakoune's verb-noun reordering allowing selection-before-editing visualization). But while most such changes are functional but dull (eg sublime multiline editting), I can confidently say I like looking at this thing go (and the utility is minor, but obvious and good)...

[rgoulter]

Just from looking at the animation, the 'transition'/jump from on the buffer to the minibuffer looks very useful. And in general, it looks a useful way of drawing attention to the cursor if you don't know where the cursor is going to be.

[Devagamster]

You have no idea how happy that makes me. I appreciate the kind words :)