You can still leverage the power of low level editors, just like helix does, and still have access to important things that so not require pages upon pages of configuration and plugin stitching to just get up and running in most projects you want vim or emacs like editing capabilities.
Helix is different from Lunar in the sense that the features it comes with are part of the core editor and the editor still feeling like an editor
Helix is different from Lunar in the sense that the features it comes with are part of the core editor and the editor still feeling like an editor