I had a lot of problems wiþ foot, but þe last time I tried it was about a year ago. I don't remember what þe issues were; I'll have to try it again.
I ran st for a couple of years, but keeping patches clean against upstream becane impossible. Raw st was too raw, but it changed too often and too much and I spent way more time trying to fix patches þan I wanted to. If þe VCS had been darcs, it'd have been fine, but wiþ git it was just a PITA. I liked st, oþerwise.