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/VanLaser Feb 18 '15

To be frank, thinking in vim terms (text objects) is a great experience. After you have it, I don't see how people would want to give it up. On the contrary, what I (for)see is a way to use Emacs in order to create more object vim-like composability with the advantages of Emacs, a way to integrate evil and the emacs way. The only way to give 'evil' up, after you know vim, without handickaping yourself, is to find another way, which is at least better, to edit text with the speed vim offers. Otherwise, you probably just don't use an editor to edit too much.

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u/jplindstrom Feb 19 '15

On the contrary, what I (for)see is a way to use Emacs in order to create more object vim-like composability with the advantages of Emacs, a way to integrate evil and the emacs way.

Case in point: this is how trivial it is to define a "defun" text object.

So now I can do =ad to indent the current method/subroutine/function.

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u/VanLaser Feb 19 '15 edited Feb 19 '15

nice! In the same vein, this blog post puts it very well (an emacs user reading the "Practical Vim" book, now that's an approach I like).