Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0

New submitter karijes writes "Evil is a new Emacs major mode intended to implement full Vim emulation for Emacs editor, and it's reached its first stable release. Evil implements many Vim features and has support for plugins, so there is port for rails.vim, NERDCommenter and mapleader among others. You can find details about this release on the mailing list."

Comments

Finally

[enec]

So finally Emacs gets a text editor! I must say, it's a nice operating system but it's been missing a text editor for quite a while... ;)

Re:Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

The 1980's called and wants its joke back.

Re:Finally

[DarwinSurvivor]

2013 called and emacs users still want a text editor.

Re:Finally

[Mr Thinly Sliced]

VIM users would call, but a phone isn't in the orignal VI editor, so they don't have one.

Re:Finally

[kthreadd]

Here you go.
https://github.com/emacsmirror/linphone

vim should implement emacs

[Anonymous Coward]

they should call it "vagina"

Re:Um, why?

[JWW]

This vim is for emacs users who just know vi is better but don't want to fully admit it.....

waiting for ed

[Anonymous Coward]

If vim and emacs merged into one application, would the resulting application donate Richard Stallman to Uganda?

'Sup Dog?

[bill_mcgonigle]

I heard you like to edit text, so I put a text editor in your text editor so you can edit text while you edit text.

VI VI VI

[0WaitState]

vi vi vi, the editor of the beast.

Re:Um, why?

[chromas]

and the vi-curious.

Original vi

[Anonymous Coward]

For those of you old enough to remember the original vi, with a very limited set of commands and no support for the cursor keys:

Once we were trying to explain to an MS-DOS Wordstar user how the VI editor works. Here's what we come up with:

Vi is an editor with two distinguished modes:

In Edit mode you have all the capabilities of grandma's typewriter right under your finger tips! You can make the very same mistakes as you did with granny's typewriter and your possibilities to correct them are about the same.

That's why Vi was provided with a second mode, namely the Beep mode. On a vt100 terminal or compatible you can get into Beep mode by pressing an arrow or escape function key. In this powerful Beep mode even the more innocuous keystroke will promptly produce a Beep sound. As an example, arrows, return, blank spaces and most capital letters will produce beeps in the most arbitrary places of the screen. Just think about the whole world of possibilities that this mode gives to you:

--Compose a monotonic symphony or rap while editing your thesis!

--Send messages in Morse code to the secretary next door!

--Keep yourself awake with the clear sound of the Beep tone!

The variations are endless.