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<title>Escaping evil-mode, maybe?</title>
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<a href="/"><< back</a>
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<h1 id="escaping-evil">Escaping evil-mode</h1>
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<p>
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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.
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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.
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This was really enjoyable and let me learn more about how the puritans do Emacs, but in general,
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I just felt a lot slower. So I came back to <code>evil-mode</code>, and have been using it daily ever since.
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But with some recent annoyances in Evil, and having to almost double my config size to use Evil integrations with other packages,
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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>,
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<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).
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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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<h2 id="the-test">The test</h2>
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I will be comparing each mode on the following all scored out of 10:
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<li>Learnability. How long does it take for a seasoned Vim and Emacs user to learn?</li>
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Feel. How ergonomic, and how fast does it "feel"? This is fairly subjective but it does matter to me.
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I like to feel like i'm hacking on a 80's mainframe, with a nuclear threat on the horizon.
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</li>
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<li>Config. How difficult is it to configure, and get working with other packages</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="evil-review"><code>evil-mode</code>'s rating</h2>
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Here is my review of <code>evil-mode</code>:
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<li>Learnability: 10 it's just Vim's keybinds (mostly)</li>
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<li>Feel: 7 it does feel fast, and fairly ergonomic, but the use of escape to escape modes kind of sucks</li>
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<li>Config: 3 you have to install extra packages for almost everything you could think of to add evil support</li>
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</ul>
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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
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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,
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for extensability, something that I think <code>evil-mode</code> restricts.
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