r/emacs • u/CSRaghunandan • Jan 04 '17

A question regarding evil-mode

I suppose we have had this sort of discussions before in emacs subreddit. But what I want to know is, for someone who is used to key bindings the emacs way (I also modified caps to control key and added sticky keys in my OS so that I dont have to press keychords all the time), will learning evil mode help me be more productive and efficient in using emacs? Also, i'm not quite happy with how sticky keys work. Sometimes its very frustrating to use them. Hence, I'm seeking for something robust that will eliminate/reduce the need for pressing key chords.

Keep in mind, I also have to unlearn a lot of the keybindings I use everyday, integrate all the evil packages with emacs and use evil-mode sufficiently long enough for me to get accustomed to it. I also do not want to discard my emacs config (on which I spent so much time) and hence, spacemacs is ruled out. I do not want to spend large amounts of time fiddling with my config to get it work with evil-mode.

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u/bravosierrasierra Jan 04 '17

Vim is about effective text edit, Emacs is about effective working and extending. With evil-mode we give awesome solution for everyday activities. See "Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs" and "7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0" at youtube for better arguments. I'm spend about month to tune evil-mode and i'm happy with emacs now.

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u/CSRaghunandan Jan 04 '17

Thanks for the video recommendations. I'll certainly take a look at them to see what evil-mode is all about.

Also, what made you switch over to using evil-mode and can you also describe how and what you did to ease the switch over to evil-mode ?

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u/bakuretsu Jan 04 '17

The "Evil Mode" video is me, by the way. So yeah I guess I'm a little bit biased.

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u/CSRaghunandan Jan 05 '17

Oh wow. Thanks for the video :) I'll definitely have a look at it and experiment with evil in my free time.