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A while ago I decided that I’d like to challenge my muscle-memory (and by that my brain) a little by pushing it out of its comfort zone. Last time I did that was back in 2024 with the switch from my endgame M60 to the Corne v3 and ultimately to the Kunai, which required me to re-learn to type, in a way. I remember how dreadfully inconvenient the experience had been in the first days/weeks, but over two years down the line I’m glad I made the move, and I feel like it has definitely improved my typing and my abilities, let alone my wrist posture. This time, I decided to challenge myself to switch away from the editor that I migrated to five years ago, Neovim, to Helix, the post-modern text editor. I had wanted to do this for a long time, and it just so happened that yet another troubling story unfolded within the Neovim community that had once again put the unprofessionalism of the core team on full display. And after years of the project being infiltrated and virtually taken over by…

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