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> vi clones

This is the problem with moving off vi motions: you can get vi motions almost everywhere. Jetbrains, check, Visual Studio, check, vscode, check, sublime, check, firefox, check. The best I found for Kakoune (which I do significantly prefer) was an approximation of it for vscode, and nothing else.

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I tried vim bindings in VSCode but I couldn’t stand them, it was right inside the uncanny valley for me.

What didn't you like about it?

Typically I use vim+tmux, so I should have also probably set up some additional extension to add a tmux-like panel change shortcut, so I could save-and-run like I normally would on the command line.

It also didn’t seem to handle Jupyter cells well. I forget exactly, but sometimes it would jump from one panel to another instead I think?

There is always something once in a while that steals the focus from the text and forces you to click back.

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