evil-org-mode VS lambda-emacs

I see that evil-collection says it provides minimal org support. It apparently integrates with org-evil and evil-org, but it's not clear to me if there's substantial differences between them.

You might want to redefine also the function org-insert-todo-heading-respect-content-below. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, you would be better checking the package evil-org-mode , that already defines them or a similar one.

Evil, plus evil-collection, evil-org, etc.

What you want is evil-org-mode I use it and it's great—when I'm on a list item and I press o it creates a new line and automatically makes the list item. Here's my configuration:

You might look at crafted emacs and my own lambda-emacs (not sure if either of these are properly classified as "distros" though). Both default to vanilla Emacs bindings. The repo for lambda-emacs also has a bunch of links to some other great vanilla configs like Prelude, etc.

I am a professor in the humanities (philosophy) and I maintain a framework for Emacs (I don’t know if it rises to the level of “distro”) that is conducive to humanities work, including writing, notes, citations, a good ui, and basic programming. I’m happy to say more if you have any questions. https://github.com/Lambda-Emacs/lambda-emacs

See my lambda-emacs and lambda-themes. They are meant for writing and readability.

7 - Meow: Meow is great. I switched from evil a few months ago and am pretty happy with it. I also dropped general.el for bind-key.el, which is included with use-package (which I see you are using anyway). You can look at my setup of meow here and a more generic setup of keybindings here. I haven't had any trouble with using this instead of general.