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• Creating an Emacs major mode - because why not?
  1 project | dev.to | 8 Sep 2024

  For multiple reasons, one of them just being curiosity, I started using Emacs. And before anyone wants to start waging the holy war of editors1, I'll put myself out there and pronounce that the one and only correct answer is: Emacs with EVIL (GitHub) mode.

• Helix-gpui: helix gpui front end
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2024

  Emacs is whatever you want it to be, and it has wonderful modal editing packages such as evil-mode[1] - which surpasses the editing system from vi that it is based on - and Meow[2]

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

  2. https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

• 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

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