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I like the CLI too, and would still need it if I "left" the Terminal.

What I mean by out of the terminal is that I simply want my editing experience to have variable fonts, popups, borders for windows that aren't bound to font size, better icons, underlines, etc etc.

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yeah, I totally get that. I keep toying with VSCode for the same reason. The problem w/ gui based tools in general is that they don't usually follow unix design principles. You end up making lots of little compromises just to integrate into your editor.

Yea, which is why I want a real frontend, not an emulator or w/e. Ie, there are real frontends for both Neovim and Kakoune. They let the editor do the real lifting, and they merely change the UI.

That is what I want, but in a super well presented manner. I'd happily pay ~200/y for that. BUT, I think this frontend would also have to have a "normal" editor built in, because I don't think people like me would pay enough to allow a dev to write this editor full time.

VS Code has a plugin that uses neovim as a backend. I haven't tried it yet: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...

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