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unshavedyak ◴[] No.45118137[source]
I want to try Zed but the Helix mode seems quite young. Vim mode sounds good, but i just can't move away from Helix mode. (oh and of course, my own modifications to Helix's input config)

My difficulty in finding editors that fit my desired input scheme kinda reminds me of the old pre-LSP days. Where you'd chose an editor based on it's language features. I wonder if we need some sort of common editor interface to allow these sort of text editing primitives to work in new editors, as it seems to be considerable friction.

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1. ricardobeat ◴[] No.45119415[source]
Helix itself seems quite young - and first time I’m hearing of it.
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2. dcre ◴[] No.45119790[source]
It’s about 4 years old, twice as old as Zed!
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3. valtism ◴[] No.45120640[source]
Same age:

commit b400449a58507cca1fa007197929c2cfd6beabbe

Author: Nathan Sobo <nathan@zed.dev>

Date: Sat Feb 20 10:02:34 2021 -0700

    Start rebuilding with a cleanly-separated UI framework
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4. dcre ◴[] No.45122016{3}[source]
Wow!