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Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil Emacs (esrh.me)
herewulf 11 hours ago [-]
The article was apparently published in 2021 but meow has had a release as recently as October.

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

There's also a Doom Emacs module: https://github.com/meow-edit/doom-meow

This is HN submission is the first I've heard of meow but it looks interesting. One of the bigger problems I have with Doom is reading the docs for Emacs packages and the keybinds don't match. It's nice that someone took the time to make evil bindings but sometimes it's a struggle to remember where the bindings differ (I'm thinking of Magit in particular).

Plus, object-verb command order just seems next level. I'm always using evil/vim visual mode anyway. My fear is losing muscle memory for using vi and vim in environments where there's no Emacs, especially not one with my special config.

setopt 10 hours ago [-]
> One of the bigger problems I have with Doom is reading the docs for Emacs packages and the keybinds don't match.

Did you try `C-h m`? It will generate interactive keybinding descriptions for your current context, including say Magit + Evil.

setopt 1 days ago [-]
> Actions like ciw or 2dd are remarkably powerful primarily because of the so called “grammar” of the vim language: verb -> adjective -> noun.

Nitpick: I don’t think the Vim grammar has adjectives; w and W are for instance different nouns, as opposed to having a separate adjective that could be attached to specify “delete BIG word”.

Perhaps you meant “preposition” instead, like the inside / around / surrounding prepositions used to construct “text objects”?

But interesting blog post :)

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