[Feature Request] Vim Motions

[Hwks-9026]

This issue is pretty self explanatory. Coming from Neovim and doom Emacs, I really love the aesthetic of the editor, but I'll never be able to seriously use a text editor without vim motions. I think much of the potential audience for this editor will probably feel the same way. I think that the command system the way it is is the correct choice, but not being able to jump around in the same way as with every other editor I've used is too big a barrier to entry.

I would also be willing to try developing the system myself and make a pull request, but I have no experience with Jai, and would likely not do a very good job.

The progress so far is really exciting! I hope some day I will be able to use it.

[focus-editor]

We got this request multiple times. The problem is that it's hard to make people happy until everything they are used to in vim is implemented, which is a big rabbit hole. If you disagree, do tell us which subset of vim motions you would be happy with.

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[de-senk]

what makes vim motions great are not "vim motions" in fact vim motions are terrible. The real power of vim motion relies on the concatenations of commands.

[zkxjzmswkwl]

We got this request multiple times. The problem is that it's hard to make
people happy until everything they are used to in vim is implemented, which
is a big rabbit hole.

If you disagree, do tell us which subset of vim motions you would be happy
with.
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Either way there are unhappy people, no? With no vi motion support, there's an unhappy camp.
With some, there's an unhappy camp that wants more.

Only in one of these situations, there's a higher likelihood that a full-fledged fork of the editor to be modal-first happens. Which is a good thing (I think?).