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  • To use any editor with vim bindings takes time and effort. The learning curve is generally quite steep, so if you decide to go down that path, then to switch to a different flavour of vim isn’t too much effort, assuming you have already put the effort in to learn vi/vim/nvim. If you have yet to do that, I strongly suggest that you go dive into using vim for a month or three before you start worrying about which plugin set you prefer. The magic powers are really in the modes, macros and keybindings. For example, VSCode has a decent enough set of keybindings that it’s usable, but I still prefer console editing and on the fly macro creation.

    Regarding Lunarvim, for me, it was the first vim ide I found which hit all my requirements, and wasn’t intellij, vs code, etc. But I had been using vanilla vim for nearly 30 years by then. The default plugins which come with lvim are pretty good, so I only add or modify with care. I really can’t afford to lose my ide in a work environment.

    Speaking of which, lvim works in most terminal environments, but may require font tweaking on windows, wsl, etc. But then it’s always harder doing stuff in those environments…

    I can’t speak for emacs, since I last tried it 20 years ago (although I didn’t like the complex key bindings at the time). I hear that once you commit to one of the two, it’s difficult to transition to the other, but ymmv 😁