On 2023-10-16 20:49, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On the other had we have plenty of people requesting that completions
> offer either more, or more contextually specific, matches.
Isn't that a different issue?  One can't have too much control.
>    Those
> people certainly want assistance rather than imperatives,
Pardon?  How do the two conflict?
>   and the
> EDITOR/VISUAL checks have never prevented anyone from being explicit
> instead.

True, it's a  philosophical thing, but the majority commented that they 
found it either confusing or even confounding.  I favor things like that 
having one point of control which is an explicit imperative:

bindkey -vi

I tell the shell what I want.  No guessing, no wondering, no conflicts.  
Personal thing of course, but I myself consider simplicity to be a very 
strong value.  I'd even go as far as calling the EDITOR thing a bug.  
Complexity that adds power is one thing, but complexity that just adds 
lines of code while offering zero improvement in control is another.  
I'm probably a bit of an extremist in this tho.