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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. Finally by enec · · Score: 5, Funny

    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... ;)

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    1. Re:Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The 1980's called and wants its joke back.

    2. Re:Finally by DarwinSurvivor · · Score: 5, Funny

      2013 called and emacs users still want a text editor.

    3. Re:Finally by Mr+Thinly+Sliced · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    4. 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.

  2. 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 JWW · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    2. Re:Um, why? by MoonFog · · Score: 5, Informative

      This is the world of open source software, "because we can" is ALWAYS a perfectly acceptable reason :)

    3. 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.

    4. Re:Um, why? by chromas · · Score: 5, Funny

      and the vi-curious.

    5. 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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  3. waiting for ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. 'Sup Dog? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. VI VI VI by 0WaitState · · Score: 5, Funny

    vi vi vi, the editor of the beast.

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