Yes, it's tied to evil and that's not going to change. This is one of the areas where corgi is strongly opinionated. See also my post from 8 years ago. I am strongly convinced that modal editing is the superior approach. http://devblog.arnebrasseur.net/2014-08-amazing-lisp-vim

I'll likely spend the last two weeks of the year trying to move Corgi forward again, just like I did the last two years. That should get it to a state where it's a bit more ready for general consumption, as well as more open to contributions.

that makes sense

agreed on modal editing being The Way:tm:. I'm enjoying meow's approach to modal editing as an alternative to the vim framework

I really like the "signals" idea of mapping an abstract capability to a key and letting the mode & signal impl determine what the specific implementation ought to be