To be clear, historic English common law principles may not be as persuasive or binding to US judicial findings. However, the US absolutely is a Common Law jurisdiction, see eg ^[1]

Common laws is dynamic, subject to interpretation and serves often to fill gaps in legislation.

Common Law is simply a principle that similar judicial findings are binding for future cases. Whilst US, UK, South Africa, Canada etc. Are all common law countries, the application and interpretation of common law is by no means consistend and the US has diverged the furthest from the English tradition.

So whilst a traditional common law principle may be alive in law, it may also have been modified by a combination of contemporary judicial findings and legislative intervention.

I left a comment before but I thought I’d address the concerns around modal editing. It’s not as hard as it seems, once you wrap your head around hjkl you’ll be fine.

Use Lazyvim to get started and install the vim plugin in vscode. Try it qutebrowser too you won’t look back honestly.

Consider helix too, it works out of the box but the keys are slightly different to Vim which makes it challenging for me.

Neovim, Emacs, Helix and VSCode.

Zed has been fun.

VsCode and Pycharm are just too slow for me. You need a very fast machine with a lot of RAM.