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Do you use vim?
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No. But only because I switched to helix. I have used vim for a lone time before that. Only having vim on a system is fine. Far worse is only having vi. Which is almost like vim but missing a lot of useful things.
I use helix part-time but am forced to go back to neovim a majority of the time for a few reasons:
If 1 and 2 got fixed, I'd be a full time helix user
What do you mean by persistent undo? Never used helix before
In vim you can make some changes to a file, close vim, and then reopen the files, and then undo your changes, i.e. your undo history persists across sessions.