Hi Prot,

Hope you are doing well!

Recently I surprisingly find that you started to use evil. By 
looking at
your source code I am really sorry to hear that you injured your 
left
hand. I hope you could recover from it soon!

I highly recommends two packages (they are exclusive) in an effort 
to
avoid control keys as much as possible.

The first is evil-escape 
(https://github.com/syl20bnr/evil-escape),
which allows you to use "jk" to switch to normal mode (something 
similar
to "nmap jk <ESC>") in vim. I never find "C-[" or "<ESC>" to 
switch to
normal mode efficiently and they are harmful to my left hands, 
either
you press control key which has the potential to exacerbate RSI or 
I
have to move my lefthand off the homerow. BTW, "jk" in evil-escape 
is
lagless.

Meow (https://github.com/meow-edit/meow) is yet another modal 
editing
mode. I personally don't use this but with discussion with others 
I
think meow has its advantage in integrating with vanilla emacs 
much more
seamlessly.

The highlight for meow is you can use "SPC x f" to emulate "C-x 
C-f"
automatically (no additional keybinding configuration needed), and 
"SPC
x SPC o" to emulate "C-x o". I personally think this in some sense 
even
eliminating ctrl keys even more than evil. You still have to use 
"C-v",
"C-w" stuffs in vim occasionally. And meow doesn't need to 
reconfigure
every keybindings you already have, they applied in a modal way
automatically.

I am inspired by your blogs a lot and I am really appreciate it 
for your
post. Hope you could stay healthy and produce more high quality
contents!

> From: North Year <ny-ml@outlook.com>
> Date: Thu,  8 Dec 2022 14:55:27 -0500
>
> Hi Prot,

Hello there!

> Hope you are doing well!

I am fine, thank you!  

> Recently I surprisingly find that you started to use evil. By looking
> at your source code I am really sorry to hear that you injured your
> left hand. I hope you could recover from it soon!

My arm is getting better though it is not fully healed.  No problem
though.  It was just shock damage and will recover completely.  I will
be using evil-mode until then.  After that I am not sure.

> I highly recommends two packages (they are exclusive) in an effort to
> avoid control keys as much as possible.
>
> The first is evil-escape (https://github.com/syl20bnr/evil-escape),
> which allows you to use "jk" to switch to normal mode (something
> similar to "nmap jk <ESC>") in vim. I never find "C-[" or "<ESC>" to
> switch to normal mode efficiently and they are harmful to my left
> hands, either you press control key which has the potential to
> exacerbate RSI or I have to move my lefthand off the homerow. BTW,
> "jk" in evil-escape is lagless.

Good to know!

> Meow (https://github.com/meow-edit/meow) is yet another modal editing
> mode. I personally don't use this but with discussion with others I
> think meow has its advantage in integrating with vanilla emacs much
> more seamlessly.
>
> The highlight for meow is you can use "SPC x f" to emulate "C-x C-f"
> automatically (no additional keybinding configuration needed), and
> "SPC x SPC o" to emulate "C-x o". I personally think this in some
> sense even eliminating ctrl keys even more than evil. You still have
> to use "C-v", "C-w" stuffs in vim occasionally. And meow doesn't need
> to reconfigure every keybindings you already have, they applied in a
> modal way automatically.

I wanted to try Meow before, but could not access its tutorial so I did
not know how to perform the various motions.  It's model is highly
promising and I think it will be better for me than evil-mode.

One problem I have with evil is that I do not know how to target the
symbol-at-point the way Emacs keys do.  For example, if point is inside
this:

    some-symbol-here)))

I want to delete "some-symbol-here" WITHOUT the parentheses.  So I type
ciW, which does the wrong thing as it captures the parentheses.  In Lisp
code, I end up unbalancing the expressions the whole time.  This is a
problem I did not have with the Emacs keys.

There probably is a way to define word/symbol boundaries or something
like that, but I have not researched it yet.

> I am inspired by your blogs a lot and I am really appreciate it for
> your post. Hope you could stay healthy and produce more high quality
> contents!

Thank you!  I will try to keep it this way and produce more relevant
content in the near future.

All the best,
Prot

-- 
Protesilaos Stavrou
https://protesilaos.com

Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:

>
>     some-symbol-here)))

It's "yio" or "yao" to select a symbol. Vim and emacs's word are
different things. Vim uses "iskeyword" to configure what forms a 
word,
while emacs uses "modify-syntax-entry"

> From: North Year <ny-ml@outlook.com>
> Date: Thu,  8 Dec 2022 23:05:14 -0500
>
> Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:
>
>>
>>     some-symbol-here)))
>
> It's "yio" or "yao" to select a symbol. Vim and emacs's word are
> different things. Vim uses "iskeyword" to configure what forms a word,
> while emacs uses "modify-syntax-entry"

Excellent!  This works.  Thank you!

-- 
Protesilaos Stavrou
https://protesilaos.com