While true, as an old Vim user, I'm recommending finding some other modal-editor: too much cruft in Vim.

I hear Helix is modal.

( modal-editors help bash one against one's unconscious-mind's woodenness: forcing switching-of-levels, & if you read "The Design of Everyday Things", which Adam Savage also recommends people read, as he found it life-changing, then you'll read that NOT-switching-levels is a racial mental-defect: we just enforce-harder, instead of switching-levels, & break opportunity we're in!

So, modal-editing helps break that ignorance, giving us better ability to get out from the wrong-level into the right-for-the-context level, & therefore I absolutely recommend modal editors, for nearly-all.

However, vi & vim .. a bit too much cruft, in the crystallization.

Clean-slate optimization of what commands are in, what key-codes are for what, etc, ought produce a better tool. )

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