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I use vim bindings with everything and am a full convert to modal editing.

But...

Vim bindings also feel like they have accumulated 40 years of cruft and evolved into some severely localized maxima. I'd be really interested in other attempts to do modal editing. Are there other attempts out there?

(Disclaimer: I use vim and vim bindings a lot but I am not really a vim power user.)

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There are several within the vast expanse of Emacs extensions:

https://github.com/mrkkrp/modalka

https://github.com/fgeller/fingers.el

https://github.com/jyp/boon

I believe I've seen at least one standalone editor focused on this, too, but I don't recall where.

Could it have been http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html

Yup, Kakoune was it.

Thanks!

Edit: And, as had to be the case, someone has made a simple simulation of Kakoune for Emacs: https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el

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