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by afarviral 2049 days ago
I wish there was a dedicated, light text editor that could be comfortably used as a typical vim config but was fully compatible with a windows/mac paradigm for discovering shortcuts or standards (e.g. with the mouse or using standard keybindings). Gvim isn't quite there but close. This fictional editor should still be usable by anyone in a terminal but should be used like vscode as a standalone tool and yet very, very low resource, low fuss. There just isnt such an editor. Vim itself is just too hard for a beginner. It took me far too many years to know it and Im still learning years later...but I'm hooked now and struggle to edit text using the mouse, end, home, delete, enter, tab and ctrl-chords. I'd recommend it to anyone but more as a fun learning project; an esoteric plaything with real-world applications that give you a bit of an edge oftentimes.
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