org-msg VS evil

Compare org-msg vs evil and see what are their differences.

org-msg

OrgMsg is a GNU/Emacs global minor mode mixing up Org mode and Message mode to compose and reply to emails in a Outlook HTML friendly style. (by jeremy-compostella)

evil

The extensible vi layer for Emacs. (by emacs-evil)
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org-msg evil
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272 3,237
- 1.6%
3.8 8.0
16 days ago 5 days ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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org-msg

Posts with mentions or reviews of org-msg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-06.
  • Gnus email client tips
    1 project | /r/emacs | 26 Apr 2023
    There is also org-msg as another option (haven't tried both so can't compare).
  • [doom-emacs] How to put the signature above the citation in mu4e?
    1 project | /r/DoomEmacs | 26 Aug 2022
    org-msg replaces a lot of message composition behavior, so it's not a big surprise that it doesn't respect that variable. Make sure you're referencing org-msg's README while customizing it.
  • Whatโ€™s New in Emacs 28.1?
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2022
    Funny, just dealt with the whole O365 authentication just this week. With moving to 2 factor authentication you need to use OAuth 2 to do anything with it. I have my (work) O365 email forwarded, so I do have normal IMAP access. I use isync/mbsync [1] to receive email, goimapnotify [2] to get pushed new email, read/reply/etc with mu4e [3] and org-msg [4] and org-mode, and until recently just plain SMTP to send mail. This last part will break with 2 factor, but found oauth2ms [5] to set up the OAuth to work with O365 SMTP. The trick was to find the "tenet ID" from the Azure page of your organization and to use Thunderbird's credentials [6] (or another mail program, since I can't make new app registrations on Azure to have my own "application"). That should also allow you to use IMAP with OAuth 2 as well, but haven't done that since I still have the forwarding. (As usual, I think the Arch Wiki [7] covers most of this too.)

    [1] http://isync.sourceforge.net/

    [2] https://gitlab.com/shackra/goimapnotify

    [3] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html

    [4] https://github.com/jeremy-compostella/org-msg

    [5] https://github.com/harishkrupo/oauth2ms

    [6] https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/file/tip/mailnews/base/s...

    [7] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Isync#Using_XOAUTH2

  • use-package :bind won't work for org-msg. What's going on?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 31 Aug 2021
    I'm using org-msg like this (great package btw, doesn't get enough attention if you ask me):
  • [ANN] New package: mu4e-column-faces
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 9 Aug 2021
  • Enhance Your Email With Org Mode
    1 project | /r/emacs | 26 Jan 2021
    https://github.com/jeremy-compostella/org-msg/issues/1#issuecomment-426415584 is one of the things which pushed me towards org-msg.
  • org-msg: Compose and reply to emails in a Outlook HTML friendly style.
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 5 Jan 2021

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 ๐Ÿ˜‚)
  • 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 ๐Ÿ˜…) 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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing org-msg and evil you can also consider the following projects:

mu4e-column-faces

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

notdeft - NotDeft note manager for Emacs

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

weblorg - Static Site Generator for Emacs

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

elfeed-org - Configure the Elfeed RSS reader with an Orgmode file

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

preview-org-html-mode - Emacs minor mode for an (optionally) live preview of Org exports to HTML using Xwidgets.

VSpaceCode - Spacemacs like keybindings for Visual Studio Code

emacs-fsharp-mode - F# Emacs mode

portacle - A portable common lisp development environment