From c22e4fcb3c1b950347108815052d5e13ef8bc24d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rawley <rawleyfowler@proton.me>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 12:27:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add evil-mode article

---
 index.html               |  5 ++++-
 maybe-escaping-evil.html | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 trying-lite-xl.html      |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 maybe-escaping-evil.html
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 00c047d..d02a299 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     </head>
     <body style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: rgb(254, 249, 232)">
         <div style="margin: 48px; width: 530px;">
-            <a href="https://openbsd.org"><img style="width: 300px; height: 240px;" src="puffy.png"/></a>
+            <img style="width: 300px; height: 240px;" src="puffy.png"/>
             <p>
                 Christian, Husband, Dad, Functional programmer, Emacs fan and BSD user.
             </p>
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
             </p>
             <h2>Sitemap</h2>
             <ul>
+                <li>
+                    <a href="/maybe-escaping-evil.html">Exploring <code>evil-mode</code> alternatives</a>
+                </li>
                 <li>
                     <a href="/in-defense-of-global-variables.html">How to Properly use Global Variables</a>
                 </li>
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 @@
+<html>
+    <head>
+        <title>Escaping evil-mode, maybe?</title>
+        <meta name="description" content="Trying to escape evil mode">
+        <meta name="keywords" content="Emacs, Perl, Vim, evil-mode escape">
+        <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    </head>
+    <body style="margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: rgb(254, 249, 232)">
+        <div style="margin: 48px; width: 530px;">
+            <a href="/">&lt;&lt; back</a>        
+            <h1 id="escaping-evil">Escaping evil-mode</h1>
+            <p>
+                I've been using <a href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil"><code>evil-mode</code></a> 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 <code>evil-mode</code>, 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: <a href="https://github.com/meow-edit/meow">meow</a>,
+                <a href="https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys">Xah-Fly-Keys</a>, or <a href="https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode">god-mode</a> (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.
+            </p>
+            <h2 id="the-test">The test</h2>
+            <p>
+                I will be comparing each mode on the following all scored out of 10:
+                <ul>
+                    <li>Learnability. How long does it take for a seasoned Vim and Emacs user to learn?</li>
+                    <li>
+                        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.
+                    </li>
+                    <li>Config. How difficult is it to configure, and get working with other packages</li>
+                </ul>
+            </p>
+            <h2 id="evil-review"><code>evil-mode</code>'s rating</h2>
+            <p>
+                Here is my review of <code>evil-mode</code>:
+                <ul>
+                    <li>Learnability: 10 it's just Vim's keybinds (mostly)</li>
+                    <li>Feel: 7 it does feel fast, and fairly ergonomic, but the use of escape to escape modes kind of sucks</li>
+                    <li>Config: 3 you have to install extra packages for almost everything you could think of to add evil support</li>
+                </ul>
+                Overall I do like <code>evil-mode</code>, 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 <code>evil-mode</code> restricts.
+            </p>
+        </div>
+    </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/trying-lite-xl.html b/trying-lite-xl.html
index 32979dd..2610ed9 100644
--- a/trying-lite-xl.html
+++ b/trying-lite-xl.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <html>
     <head>
-        <title>Running mod_perl with Mojolicious in Docker</title>
+        <title>Using LiteXL!</title>
         <meta name="description" content="Trying Lite XL, my thoughts on the Lite XL text editor">
         <meta name="keywords" content="Lite-XL text-editor text editor perl emacs">
         <meta charset="UTF-8">
