Is it worth renouncing evil and becoming a good person?

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  • evil-collection

    A set of keybindings for evil-mode

    Before giving up Evil, I’d highly recommend checking out https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-collection if you haven’t already. It does the vast majority if the heavy lifting with regards to making Evil a consistent experience.

  • evil-guide

    Draft of a guide for using emacs with evil

    It’s probably worth understanding what evil is doing so you can make your own key bindings for packages you find. I personally don’t think evil is obscuring things for me because I’ve gotten pretty good at using the introspection features of emacs to look at what everything is doing. The guide from noctuid was a good reference when I read it https://github.com/noctuid/evil-guide.

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  • miryoku

    Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout.

    I would highly recommend checking out miryoku or something similar. The killer feature for vanilla Emacs is mapping all of the modifier keys to your home row keys, so if you tap the key it sends a letter, but if you hold it it works as Ctrl, Alt, Shift, etc.

  • chemacs2

    Emacs version switcher, improved

    I asked this same question a year and half ago and since that post I started reading Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen which was really helpful, I used Chemacs to keep my evil config around in case I give up. But I ended up dropping that config and I realized I wasn't really into modal editing. It took me one month to get used to my new config but that was worth it, everything in Emacs became consistent.

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