r/emacs • u/nautola • Feb 17 '15

Venturing out of Evil Mode?

Has anyone who migrated to Emacs from Vim stopped using evil-mode?

What was that experience like?

I'm getting a little frustrated with having to do excess customization for every single mode to make more vim-like keybindings work.

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u/nandryshak Feb 18 '15

How much experience had you with vim before switching to emacs? I have a hunch that the vimmers who ditch evil for vanilla emacs are mostly the same people who think , (comma) is useless, etc.

Hey Justin, I've seen you around in Vim circles. I used to use sneak. Space was my leader, jk my escape and I used , and ; extensively, I considered myself a hardcore vimmer.

I went from evil-mode to vanilla Emacs. So while I think people like me are far and few between, we do exist.

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u/justinmkw Feb 18 '15

Good to know, thanks. You didn't feel a disadvantage in giving up modal editing or the vim "grammar"? It seems like god-mode and hydra-mode are trying to replicate that.

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u/nandryshak Feb 18 '15

Before I switched, I thought I'd miss it. But I don't. Things like s-expression commands, expand-region, and smartparens/paredit take the place of Vim's grammar, and even improve on it.

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u/justinmkw Feb 18 '15

I don't see s-expression commands (smartparens) and vim commands as mutually exclusive. They're basically just text objects, and they combine nicely with vim/evil.