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Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0

Posted by timothy on from the what-you-want-everything dept.

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."

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  1. Um, why? by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you want to use vim, why wouldn't you just use vim?

    1. Re:Um, why? by spintriae · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because vim users would like to take advantage of nice emacs goodies like Slime without changing the way they edit text.

    2. Re:Um, why? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Emacs scripting is better than that in vim. Vim's scripting language is an abomination, and although it has some scripting bridges to other languages, they are not always installed and bring in big external dependencies. On the other hand, emacs' user interface works on the assumption that a 105-key keyboard means a 105-fingered user. Being able to use emacs' scripting facilities with vim's interface might be quite tempting.

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  2. Re:Finally by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some people don't have a Facebook account because they grew up in the 1970s and...

    ...well, some people don't have a facefook account because they grew up.