One project that seems super cool I hope continues on is helix. https://helix-editor.com/. I just started messing around with it but the selection -> action philosophy behind text manipulation feels much more intuitive to me even though I'm proficient with vim at this point.
I recently made the switch from vim to helix. It turns out that I don't really like screwing around with my vim config for hours and hours. Helix has great defaults (themes, LSP already installed, syntax highlighting already installed and enabled for popular languages) and that's made a huge difference for me.
My vim config was at least a hundred lines, and that's not counting the endless plugins. My helix config is three or four lines to set my theme persistently and disable auto-filling parens. Something like:
theme = "onedark"
[editor]
auto-pairs = false
And Helix doesn't even support plugins (yet), so this is all bundled with the default install.
I'm on the latest release because their was a copr available for Fedora. I haven't noticed any issues so far but have only used it for a couple hours at this point.
This may be a low effort reply, but I also started using helix recently and it has been absolutely wonderful. I haven't customized it at all yet and I have yet to find something that just doesn't make sense by default.
Definitely good to try different editors, but don't write off the OG editors.
There have many, many editors hoping to make vi and emacs obsolete, yet decades later they still are heavily used. Not true for some of the newer contenders --- time is a great filter.
My vim config was at least a hundred lines, and that's not counting the endless plugins. My helix config is three or four lines to set my theme persistently and disable auto-filling parens. Something like:
And Helix doesn't even support plugins (yet), so this is all bundled with the default install.