Zed is not a great modal editor, modality is a strapped on afterthought. At least that the impression the vim keybinding give me. IMO the best chance I see for a fast modal editor that works out of the box is Helix.
{
"context": "Editor && vim_mode == insert",
"bindings": {
"j k": "vim::NormalBefore"
}
}Are there any modal editors that are not file-based? Maybe it would be better to say this is a problem with its file-based editor emulation?