Evil Alternatives

evil reviews and mentions

• Are We Stuck with Lean?
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2026
• Switching from the Mac port Build of Emacs to the Standard NS Build
  5 projects | dev.to | 20 Jun 2026

  That said, the default for sis-context-hooks, which decides when it fires, is '(evil-insert-state-entry-hook), which assumes evil. If you don't use evil, this hook never gets called and it won't work, so you'll need to add hooks that match your own workflow.

• 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 😂)

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