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evil vimwiki
105 112
3,241 8,573
0.8% 0.4%
8.0 6.3
4 days ago 11 days ago
Emacs Lisp Vim Script
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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

vimwiki

Posts with mentions or reviews of vimwiki. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.
  • Neorg – organize your life in Neovim
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2024
    No, Neorg does not use the same markup as Org-mode. They use their own specification that is specifically designed to be different from Org-mode spec.

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvim-neorg/norg-specs/main...

    Furthermore, each item you have listed as a benefit to Org-mode is in fact capable of being done in Markdown via plugins for neovim, and probably other markdown editors, like Loqseq, Roamresearch, or Obisidian, much in the same way you speak of plugins that interface with .org docs.

    https://github.com/wthollingsworth/pomodoro.nvim

    https://github.com/Myzel394/easytables.nvim

    https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

    So, my suggestion is that before dismissing a comment regarding a plugin that is unfamiliar to you, is to read its spec, and then try to understand why people would be perhaps dismissive of that tool, especially when it chooses to conflict with existing, more popular choices.

  • Vimwiki – A Personal Wiki for Vim
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2024
  • Wrap long lines in markdown tables
    3 projects | /r/vim | 8 Dec 2023
    you might want to look at how vimwiki does markdown tables https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
  • Note taking in Neovim?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 2 Sep 2023
    I've been thinking of setting up a note taking enviroment in neovim. I've been searching around, and plugins as vimwiki, and nabla.nvim are great choices for me. I'm using Notion right now because of the great commands that brings that make the note taking pretty enjoyable. But the dividers, or putting background to text are features that I don't wanna lose, if possible.
  • Ask HN: Did anyone write a book in Nano?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    I wrote a manuscript in vim a couple Novembers ago, for NaNoWrimo. I used a couple plugins, primarily Goyo [1] to add some margins, but otherwise, yeah, plain vim.

    I don't think it was really any more productive than my current workflow in Obsidian. Vim keybindings are more useful for editing than for writing (and for editing code in particular, where the changes you're making are much more structured). Also, while the extra features afforded by Obsidian don't really make a difference during the writing process, I find they're really useful for outlines and other preliminary work, which is something of a point against a vim-only workflow unless you want to use vimwiki [2] or something.

    Granted, Obsidian is still a markdown-based tool, so there's still some level of minimalism going on there, but by that point we're really discussing markup vs word processors, which is its own conversation—and to my mind, a much more important one. I much prefer working in markup than in a rich text editor, because plain text is easy to edit and process through the terminal, and because it lets me separate style choices from content.

    I find that the markdown live preview that editors like Obsidian and Typora provide (and which vim doesn't) is a really nice compromise between a slick composing experience and the technical affordances of markup. Between that and Obsidian's hypertext features, I think I'll stick with Obsidian for the foreseeable future.

    [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim

    [2]: https://vimwiki.github.io/

  • Art Historians, how do you take notes
    1 project | /r/ArtHistory | 30 Jun 2023
    I use vimwiki.
  • Learning Emacs: Where to Start?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 27 Jun 2023
    Hey folks, I have been using Neovim for the past 2 years, don't have any complaints, however, I really want to give Emacs an honest try but not really sure where to start. I want to do basic text editing, programming and something similar to vimwiki (https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki)
  • Notetaking when solving issues and learning stuff
    8 projects | /r/archlinux | 9 Jun 2023
    How about learning vim and using vimwiki ?
  • Reconstructing Obsidian Features in Vim and Bash
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2023
    What, we're talking about wikis and vim, and not mentioning vimwiki?

    https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

    I tried a whole bunch of personal wikis over the years (I see Zim has been mentioned, that's one of the ones I remember trying) and this is the only one that stuck.

  • What are some ways you used Python to make YOUR life easier?
    5 projects | /r/learnpython | 4 May 2023
    I have created full on programs to systematically created screenshots with the game emulators with RetroArch. Also an automation tool to use a preexisting program named chdman that converts files into a needed format (also unpacking from archives). A little Python script to create a recents list of files for Vimwiki. I also created a program to access 🌈 emojis 🌈. I wrote my own GE Proton downloader and manager. Hell even the window manager I am using on Linux is written and configured in Python, Qtile. I wrote one or two plugins for it and the entire configuration is written in Python, meaning I can use functions, modules and every logic of Python to enhance it. It's Awesome.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing evil and vimwiki you can also consider the following projects:

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

vim-orgmode - Text outlining and task management for Vim based on Emacs' Org-Mode

lsp-mode - Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol

neorg - Modernity meets insane extensibility. The future of organizing your life in Neovim.

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

wiki.vim - A wiki plugin for Vim

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

obsidian-releases - Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

VSpaceCode - Spacemacs like keybindings for Visual Studio Code

neuron.nvim - Make neovim the best note taking application

portacle - A portable common lisp development environment

zim-desktop-wiki - Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project