From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
Cc: SndChaser <sndchaser@cerebralrift.org>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Subject: Re: Emacs Prelude
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:09:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5ur9yi6.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACHMzOEoW5izbJ6jLuVC3_g0wyKL0U-ckgLKJhfeEG7H3KBxiQ@mail.gmail.com> (Marcelo de Moraes Serpa's message of "Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:14:09 -0600")
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-05 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-03 2:25 Emacs Prelude SndChaser
2011-12-04 16:01 ` Tom Prince
2011-12-05 6:14 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-12-05 9:09 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-12-07 0:56 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-12-08 18:59 ` Kenny Meyer
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