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...

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1
: using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.620.g7e49b)