Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi Tom, > > I'm very interested in the "vi emulation in emacs" subject. I've tried > viper-mode but it's quite slow with org, so I gave up on it. What's evil > and how's the vi emulation it provides? Could you elaborate on it? I'd > appreciate it, a lot. > > Thanks, > > Marcelo.
Marcelo, I've been using evil (with org but also more generally) for a few months now. It provides a very good vi emulation and, more importantly, strives to stay out of the way when necessary. From the commentary in the evil.el file: ,---- | ;; Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It emulates the main | ;; features of Vim, and provides facilities for writing custom | ;; extensions. | ;; | ;; Evil lives in a Git repository. To obtain Evil, do | ;; | ;; git clone git://gitorious.org/evil/evil.git | ;; | ;; Evil is discussed at <implementations-list at lists.ourproject.org>, | ;; a mailing list you can subscribe to at: | ;; | ;; http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/implementations-list | ;; | ;; Subscription is not required; we usually reply within a few days | ;; and CC our replies back to you. `---- If you want modal editing and less cumbersome keystrokes for common commands, without losing the power that Emacs provides, evil is definitely worth considering. I could not go back to vanilla emacs... -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1 : using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.620.g7e49b)
