evil VS lsp-mode

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evil lsp-mode
105 118
3,235 4,658
1.6% 0.7%
8.0 9.3
6 days ago 2 days ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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evil

Posts with mentions or reviews of evil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-22.
  • From Doom to Vanilla Emacs
    6 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2024
    evil mode
  • Packages that you would like to be in emacs core ?
    10 projects | /r/emacs | 11 Dec 2023
    Since we already have vyper-mode, why not add Evil to the stack?
  • Ask HN: Does anyone Lisp without Emacs?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2023
    2 stripe blue belt here! I used to use Vim for everything other than Java development and have now adopted Emacs in the same way. I am using it for Clojure and Common Lisp development along with org mode, irc, rss, git and file management

    I started with Evil mode and then moved to Xah fly keys before sticking to the emacs bindings. Having the caps lock key bound to CTRL helped me a lot. I don't know if it makes that much of a difference for Emacs but using the DVORAK layout has helped my fingers

    There are other bindings you can try like Meow or God mode but I don't know what the adoption rate is like for them. Emacs gives you the flexibility to set it up as you please. As others have mentioned, there may be other keyboard options that might be more helpful as well

    https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

  • Emacs Is My New Window Manager
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    If you already know Vim, you should probably not use Emacs without Evil:

    https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

    It gives you comprehensive Vim bindings so what you need to learn to be comfortable in Emacs is very little. As a bonus, it also keeps your RSI risk unchanged.

  • Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2023
    Emacs is a text ecosystem. And it's trivial to add these shortcuts. Evil[0] basically rewires everything to be Vim.

    [0]: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

  • Is orgmode really that much better than an equivalent workflow using vim + other tools?
    14 projects | /r/orgmode | 29 May 2023
    I would *highly* recommend using vim keybindings if you're just getting into it (Doom or just evil). I switched from vim to emacs and tried to rough it with the default keybindings thinking that otherwise I wasn't /really/ using emacs, but I was wrong! I've been using org-mode/emacs for ~2 years now and I've slowly been migrating everything into it as I find useful tools/modes/etc (and now thanks to u/ilemming I have ~12 more to experiment with 😂)
  • Switching from Emacs. My experience
    20 projects | /r/neovim | 24 May 2023
    Despite using Emacs as my main editor, I was extremely familiar with Vim since I also used it frequently, and was able to use it quite well, especially because I also used [evil](https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil) in Emacs since Emacs's native keybindings are uncomfortable to use. I never used Vim as my primary editor though because it was cumbersome to configure. As many people say, Vimscript just feels wrong, so I gave up on trying to customize Vim.
  • Is it possible to use vim like navigation and control everywhere on the windows/mac applications?
    4 projects | /r/vim | 14 May 2023
    uhm... this maybe? https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
  • Avarege traaaArch user be like
    1 project | /r/transprogrammer | 4 May 2023
    doom is a set of configuration files (to put it lightly 😅) for emacs, a text editor with really really powerful configuration abilities -- your "config files" are actually code in a full-fledged programming language, so people have done things like built package managers in it, or written full emulators for other text editors
  • Cursor seems to get stuck when scrolling, need help fixing.
    1 project | /r/emacs | 28 Apr 2023
    Does it look like this? https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil/issues/1778

lsp-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of lsp-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.
  • lsp-mode: Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 15 Oct 2023
  • lsp-keymap-prefix not working
    1 project | /r/emacs | 22 Mar 2023
    I also tried to the solutions suggested ![here](https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/1532) and ![here](https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/1672), but nothing worked. I moved the (setq lsp-keymap-...) line outside (and before) use-package. I also used :config (define-key lsp-load-map...) in my use-package block. But none of them worked.
  • Help getting the yaml language server working with eglot
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 21 Mar 2023
    Not sure how much this might help, but lsp-mode has lsp-yaml-select-buffer-schema and lsp-yaml-set-buffer-schema commands to pick schema from a list or set from a URI. Checking the source of them might give some hints about how the same could be implemented in eglot?
  • What LaTeX setup do you use?
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Mar 2023
    Beyond that you might as well embrace the suck and install autex with a language server: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/
  • Emacs bankruptcy
    17 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Mar 2023
    Smart completion these days is done primarily through LSP. eglot is fairly minimal but built-in as of 29, also available via GNU Elpa. lsp-mode is another option with more integrations and a bit more fleshed out.
  • The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer
    7 projects | /r/rust | 13 Feb 2023
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023
    lsp-mode: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/2080
  • Setting up a fundraiser for multi-threaded Emacs, any thoughts on this?
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Feb 2023
    Are you running emacs-29? It has numerous speed-ups compared to emacs-28 and older versions, many of them coded by Mattias Engdegård, e.g. commit def6fa4246. I have a fresh build of emacs-29 running on Linux and a new mac with an M1 CPU, and it's stupid fast. I don't use the native-comp feature. I rarely notice any hesitation or slowness. I don't use Elpy. I do use lsp mode.
  • Newbie here! Need Help!
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Jan 2023
    Since you are doing code development, the first things to go for would be setting up your emacs packaging (installing use-package and melpa (use-package's documentation covers this) so you have more packages to choose from (do be careful to not just pick things willy nilly but research them a bit first)) and then setting up lsp-mode. lsp-mode lets you use LSP servers for the specific programming languages you work with in a somewhat unified fashion. You then need to install and setup the LSP servers for the languages you use, and possibly install language specific Emacs packages as support (note, Emacs has builtin functionality for many).
  • Emacs 29: Install Tree-Sitter parser modules with a minor mode
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 26 Dec 2022
    And first of all, I'm trying to understand, how is it connected to https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode? I'm sure, that existed lsp implementations already parse source code. Why TreeSitter?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing evil and lsp-mode you can also consider the following projects:

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers

spacemacs - A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!

tide - Tide - TypeScript Interactive Development Environment for Emacs

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

ctags - A maintained ctags implementation

VSpaceCode - Spacemacs like keybindings for Visual Studio Code

ANTLR - ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files.

portacle - A portable common lisp development environment

dap-mode - Emacs :heart: Debug Adapter Protocol

emacs-which-key - Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup

company-lsp - Company completion backend for lsp-mode