They only know vi and don't know about evil mode.

The SI prefix thing stems from a joke anyway. Allow me to trot out the etymology again:

Once upon a time in the 1980s, there was created a program for reading ELectronic Mail called Elm.

Someone created a rival mail reader called Pine, which followed both the tree pun as well as the fact it was a recursive acronym: "Pine is not Elm".

Pine had an editor called the Pine Composer or Pico for short. Pico is both a typographical term as well as an SI unit. They may have been going for both. Too perfect a pun to pass up, perhaps.

Due to licensing uncertainty, someone else created a from-scratch clone of Pico called Nano, cementing the continuation of puns, but in the SI direction.

And then apparently someone else has decided to get on the bandwagon with Micro.

It's a joke, but it's a real editor

yes, but actually no

I don't know how Micro works, and I don't actually use emacs day to day, but as I understand it emacs works a bit like:

• When you press a key in emacs it invokes a Lisp function that takes as arguments the text buffer that has focus, the parameters of the 'window' into that buffer, and the cursor position in that window.
• This is the case for any key you press in any context, even for typing normal letters.
• A 'mode' in emacs is a set of bindings which associate specific keys with specific functions.
• 'modes' can be stacked on top of each other, with higher modes being able to intercept key presses before they reach lower modes, and changes / manipulate lower modes (I think?)
• All of the editor's functionality, such as 'search' or 'undo', is implemented in that way.
• All of this is completely customizable, so pressing a key combo can be made to do virtually anything or manipulate the rest of the editor's systems in any way.

Does Micro work anything like that?

Neovim is on the path of enlightenment to become Emacs so everything is alright.

Helix

I mean...has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

That's why vim is so great: it has a ton of power built right into it without customizations, and it's already installed on basically any unix-like system. Unlike, say, vscode, it can do a ton of stuff out of the box without any plugins at all.

Just push your settings to a public github repo or gist and you can wget them. Hell, if you have a domain just setup an easy-to-remember page that redirects to the github link … domain.com/configs. There are so many options for handling this situation.

It's simply muscle memory. You think of the action and your fingers do it faster than you can consciously think of where they need to go. But I also use a split ergonomic keyboard (the Iris) and have symbols accessible from home row behind a layer. Though I can switch to a standard keyboard as needed too.

Much easier than pressing arrow keys like a maniac 😄