Neo tree was annoying to me (coming from NERDTree). I remapped things to work like NERDTree ('l' for open? should be o!). And then I finally grokked how much simpler it was to navigate directories with hjkl. Plus ? to see how to manipulate files and just keep it there is great. Way more ergonomic than NERDTree or Treemacs imho.

Also since I'm going on here, I've found the key to editor management is to make sure certain basics work across the board (for IntelliJ/, Xcode/Xvim, (space)emacs and even vim - sometimes I use vim for config changes since it's so fast to open, tmux, etc).

  C-o/C-i -> should work for navigation
  ctrl-shift-j -> should select the file you're working on
  ; ->  should map to : (retrain yourself)
  fd -> escape (retrain yourself)
  c-hjkl -> c-w hjkl (faster window/panel navigation)
  gd -> should go to definition
  vim text motion in general should work flawlessly
    e.g., @q - should start to record a macro

I use spacemacs + tmux since I like to customize and it's easiest to customize in elisp I've found than in any other IDE or vim itself. And when things don't work and I can't make it work in the editor itself, I fix it in the terminal app (Kitty) or the OS (BetterTouchTool).

Shameless plug for those curious:

https://github.com/p10q/home/blob/master/.spacemacs#L343 https://github.com/p10q/home/blob/master/kitty.conf#L797

I find undo-tree to be super useful in rare occasions, thanks to undo-tree-visualizer-toggle-diff bound on d.

The quick diffs can be pretty darn helpful with complex changes.