devil VS god-mode

They all use evil-mode for Vim emulation. So it's just their choice of defaults and configuration style that sets them apart. Doom might have a slight edge with a focus on performance.

Evil-mode is not the only way. There are other approaches like devil you might want to check out.

    https://susam.github.io/devil/

> in particular, due to use of emacs

I use Emacs too full-time (at work as well as at home). I use the ctrl key on both sides of the keyboard. Say, if I'm typing C-a (i.e., ctrl+a), I hold down 'ctrl' with the right little finger and 'a' with the left little finger. Similarly, if I'm typing C-k, I hold down 'ctrl' with the left little finger and 'k' with the right little finger. I touch type and any touch typing lesson teaches us how we always both hands to type shift+something. The same lessons can be applied to the ctrl key as well. Never had any problem using Emacs like this.

However there are some laptop keyboards which do not have the right ctrl key and that makes good typing habits really difficult when the 'ctrl' key is involved. That led me to write a minor mode to make Emacs a better experience for me on such keyboards without having to resort to a modal editing mode like God mode or Evil mode. My non-modal editing mode is called the Devil mode: <https://susam.github.io/devil/>.

Since I've never suffered from RSI due to Emacs usage, it makes me very curious about what the actual contributing factors are that causes some Emacs users to get RSI. Is it the large number of hours spent with Emacs? Is it poor typing habits? Poor keyboards?

These days there is also devil-mode: https://susam.github.io/devil/

Hmm...maybe this Devil Mode would be useful. I would probably choose something other than a comma - - there might be something on the software keyboard that I rarely use.

Another option to trigger functions are vim-inspired leader key sequences such as god mode [1] and the evil leader implementations in spacemacs and doomemacs, for example [2].

[1] https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode

You can try https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode

That readme lost me at the third exclamation mark, although I'm amused that it mentioned god-mode ... https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode/

Reminds me of god-mode: https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode. Although I use Evil, it still comes in handy on occasion when I need to type something without an Evil keybind. Alas, it’s been abandoned, though it still seems to work for me on the rare occasions I need it.

It seems strange to me to compare Evil, a modal editor, with the use of modifier keys. Maybe that is because I'm a big fan of god-mode though. For god-mode I do use a slightly modified mod-alist, which might be useful.

There's active development of god-mode still though[0].

Mentioned elsewhere here, I've found meow[1] to be really interesting/good. And it leverages some of what makes god-mode nice (from their list of key features: "Minimizes modifier usage (e.g. `SPC x f` for `C-x C-f`) inspired by god-mode")

[0]: https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode/commits/master

[1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

God mode could be something you might like.

Have you seen god-mode isn't that relatively same just automated?