Well, from what I remember DF had a side bar with every keybinding, including one on how to exit it 😂. Jk lol nothing but respect for our vim comrades.
Yeah, Emacs has the same issue, although people say it’s less ergonomic than Vim. But honestly I don’t even notice that anymore, for me it’s just a quirk of pre-gui applications and once you get used to it, the “lots of keybindings” becomes no more mentally costly than trying to figure out which graphical menu holds which option. Like I’m sure if I were to learn vim it would be just as hard as trying to learn some new type of graphical software with it’s own set of conventions. Actually, I tried playing with audacity recently and I couldn’t tell what a single thing was. So much visual information that I felt overwhelmed, I feel like a polluted gui is actually harsher on me than having to memorize arcane keybindings which I can simply write on a sheet of paper and check whenever I want. Same issue when I go to the supermarket and spend hours circling the same lanes trying to find what I want.
Fun fact: people joke about how you can’t exit vim but it actually happened to me, lol, I tried it once, long before emacs, since it came installed, and I couldn’t figure out how to exit it. I don’t remember a lot about the incident but for a while it made me incredibly hostile to both vim and emacs and any terminal application really.
Oh god, now I wanna play it again, lol, but this would ruin my life. How is it currently? Is DFHack still a thing on the Steam version? I remember there were some really cool mods but they were a bit sparse and underdeveloped. And I loved how you could mod the game by just editing text files, very Emacsy in spirit, I wish every software would allow that. I always made saltwater crocodiles domestic, hehe, they gave a lot of eggs plus it was cool to have a bunch of baby crocs following my dwarves around.