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Do you use vim?
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I started using emacs a while back. Before that i was using helix. If i need to make a quick edit in the tty i still find myself going back to nano. I've never been in a situation where i could only use vim. If i ever am though, i would know my way around.
Emacs is a pretty nice OS - all it's lacking is a good text editor.
Emacs is ok, provided it's in evil mode
I started out with evil mode, but got kinda frustrated with it at times because i was coming from helix, which does some things differently from vim. There is a helix-mode package but it's pretty new and could use some polish. So now i'm actually using the native emacs binds. It's not so bad when you use the inside of your pinky knuckle to press control, that way your fingers don't leave the home row.