Effective and efficient text editing using Emacs (Alternative to Evil)

• objed

  13 329 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Navigate and edit text objects with Emacs. Development on pause.

I am wondering is there a framework/package in emacs for effective text editing? Is there a package that makes editing text less painful in emacs, reducing some keystrokes? I have found a package objed for text objects.

• evil-collection

  36 1,156 8.0 Emacs Lisp

  A set of keybindings for evil-mode

  

Are you familiar with evil-collection? It provides a large set of keymaps and tweaks to make evil play well with a large number of common modes and packages. It may solve frustrations you have with using evil in documentation modes.

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• .emacs.d

  18 1,383 5.2 Emacs Lisp

  My personal emacs settings, and the ones used in @emacsrocks (by magnars)

I don't think there's really any beating vi for pure textual manipulation. I keep a toggle to load/unload evil bound to C-S-Z for that reason. But you can get pretty decent. Here's a site (emacsrocks, twitter of the same name) with some useful tips. You should also read the whole Info node on pure text manipulation. Also go look at treesitter, an incremental parser that makes it easy to whip up your own custom text objects.

• expand-region.el

  16 1,324 5.2 Emacs Lisp

  Emacs extension to increase selected region by semantic units.

You will probably like expand-region.el. It is fantastic for selecting inside brackets, quotes, etc.

• crux

  14 860 5.9 Emacs Lisp

  A Collection of Ridiculously Useful eXtensions for Emacs (by bbatsov)

Some packages I use for more effective text editing is crux for general text editing (video on crux), paredit for lisp editing and for org-mode:

• meow

  76 1,041 7.4 Emacs Lisp

  Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑 (by meow-edit)

  

Wow. meow project looks similar to objed but with more features. These projects are inclined to modal editing but not being vim. Thank you for suggesting.

• xah-fly-keys

  18 462 8.3 Emacs Lisp

  the most efficient keybinding for emacs

I want to bring up another package I use regularly: xah-fly-keys. For that I use KMonad to bind [home] to caps and use it to toggle modes.

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• kmonad

  199 3,512 7.6 Haskell

  An advanced keyboard manager

  

I want to bring up another package I use regularly: xah-fly-keys. For that I use KMonad to bind [home] to caps and use it to toggle modes.

• link-hint.el

  8 159 3.5 Emacs Lisp

  Pentadactyl-like Link Hinting in Emacs with Avy

In general and in non-standard buffers - Open urls, buttons, and other links with link-hint - Select correct word with flyspell-correct and frog-menu

• things.el

  4 51 2.6 Emacs Lisp

  Extensions to thingatpt.el

I've designed my own text object/motion system that I hope will eventually bring more "useful" composability to any Emacs user that wants it (see things), but right the implementation is buggy and incomplete.

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