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Christian, Husband, Dad, Functional programmer, Emacs fan and BSD user.
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evil-modealternatives + - How to Properly use Global Variables diff --git a/maybe-escaping-evil.html b/maybe-escaping-evil.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..59e42ca --- /dev/null +++ b/maybe-escaping-evil.html @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ + + +
- Learnability. How long does it take for a seasoned Vim and Emacs user to learn? +
- + Feel. How ergonomic, and how fast does it "feel"? This is fairly subjective but it does matter to me. + I like to feel like i'm hacking on a 80's mainframe, with a nuclear threat on the horizon. + +
- Config. How difficult is it to configure, and get working with other packages +
- Learnability: 10 it's just Vim's keybinds (mostly) +
- Feel: 7 it does feel fast, and fairly ergonomic, but the use of escape to escape modes kind of sucks +
- Config: 3 you have to install extra packages for almost everything you could think of to add evil support +
Escaping evil-mode
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+ I've been using evil-mode for almost 4 years at this point, and Vim keybinds even longer.
+ However, I think it's almost time for me to change. In 2022 I spent the later half of the year just on default, vanilla emacs keybinds.
+ This was really enjoyable and let me learn more about how the puritans do Emacs, but in general,
+ I just felt a lot slower. So I came back to evil-mode, and have been using it daily ever since.
+ But with some recent annoyances in Evil, and having to almost double my config size to use Evil integrations with other packages,
+ I've been thinking of using Vanilla again, or exploring some of the other modal plugins like: meow,
+ Xah-Fly-Keys, or god-mode (don't love the name of this one :P).
+ So, to the disdain of my productivity, I am going to try to use each of these for a week at a time, and report back each week with an update.
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The test
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+ Here is my review of evil-mode:
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evil-mode, and i'm very productive with it, but I find that a lot of little issues pop-up on a day to day basis
+ that could be ironed out. Things like not having re-do automatically working. At the end of the day I use Emacs for both, speed, but also,
+ for extensability, something that I think evil-mode restricts.
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