From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>,
Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, SndChaser <sndchaser@cerebralrift.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs Prelude
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 18:56:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACHMzOHHovmDsBEgG9o3ojDFMoXQp_kuOVgze0BWmTPjjfs4yA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5ur9yi6.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
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Wow! Evil is simply awesome! I like that it runs smoothly (differently from
viper-mode, which makes the whole text editing experience very slow when
using orgmode). Kudos to Evil's developers, and thank you for letting us
know about it!
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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)
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-07 0:56 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
2011-12-07 0:56 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa [this message]
2011-12-08 18:59 ` Kenny Meyer
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