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Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs

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Testing, debugging & developer tools

What it is

Aaron Bieber, a longtime Vim user, describes his experience trying Emacs with evil mode. He covers what he found, what he missed from Vim, and what Vim could borrow from Emacs.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it to Vim users considering Emacs, and several say it persuaded them or their coworkers to switch.

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “TL;DR: Watch this video”

    Reasons for switching from Vim to Emacs match commenter's own.

    blaenk, 2015-07 · Strong recommendation · in “What's new in Magit 2.x”

  2. “it really does look like it might be the best of both worlds.”

    Convinced a Vim user to try Emacs with evil mode.

    kristiandupont, 2015-07 · Recommendation · in “Firemacs: Emacs keybindings for FireFox”

  3. “Aaron gave a great talk about his switch here”

    Talk about switching from Vim; moved several coworkers to Emacs.

    endgame, 2016-07 · Recommendation · in ““Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB” [video]”

  4. “recommend watching this talk for why”

    Shows why Emacs can behave like Vim with proportional text editing.

    chungy, 2018-08 · Recommendation · in “Can I use a non-monospaced font in either Vim or gVim?”

  5. “I found this video[0] a pretty interesting perspective from a die-hard vim user who switched.”

    Perspective from a die-hard Vim user who switched to Emacs.

    spudlyo, 2019-11 · Recommendation · in “Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]”

  6. “is an interesting talk on switching from vim to emacs + org-mode.”

    Talk on switching from vim to emacs with org-mode.

    swalladge, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Emacs' Org-Mode and Syncthing = Perfect (2017)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: emacs, evil mode, vim, text editors, org-mode

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