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"Finally, install evil-mode, the Vim emulation package for Emacs" Anyone use this regularly? Does it kill off some of the upside of emacs?
"Finally, install evil-mode, the Vim emulation package for Emacs" Anyone use this regularly? Does it kill off some of the upside of emacs?
I don't use evil mode, but I don't see how it could kill any of the upside of Emacs, which has very little to do with keybindings.
I started with emacs and never learned vim. What am I missing?
I started with emacs and never learned vim. What am I missing?
After a few weeks of fighting it, I switched to evil-mode emacs and was pretty happy since then.
"Finally, install evil-mode, the Vim emulation package for Emacs" Anyone use this regularly? Does it kill off some of the upside of emacs?
I’m curious to hear from folks who have switched between the two, and have lasted for more than a year on both. If you’ve learned more than the basics and both became muscle memory, which did you end up sticking to? (Vim user for 23 years, Emacs user of none... but interested because of Lisp)
> If, like me, you’re curious enough to give Emacs a try... So curiosity rather than conversion. Six year later is he still using Emacs? Went back to Vim? Moved on to something else? I have enough years invested in muscle memory of Vim itself and various plugins that what curiosity I have about Emacs is well controlled. I doubt I have runway left to get to the same productivity in another editor.
This is a great point. Personally, the only reason I would want to switch to Emacs is Org mode but the muscle memory for custom Vim and Tmux keymaps is hard to give up.
I had the same fear before switching to emacs(in evil mode), so I changed some of the default shortcuts that I was accustomed in vim(e.g. nerdtree/treemacs). It's not that hard.
The whole enormous productivity boost that you get from Org mode(and org babel/literate programming) is well worth the temporary minor inconveniences of learning the tool.
I started with emacs and never learned vim. What am I missing?
I started with emacs and never learned vim. What am I missing?
So, once you learn a vi command, you can use it with all the motions you already know, and once you learn a motion, you can use it with all the commands you already know.
The other aspect, that is more insidiously useful: vi is almost everywhere, and will easily fit on an embedded system. It's a rare server that doesn't have it, either. This is definitely vi, not vim, when I say this, though.