This is an announcement of vim-mode 0.4. vim-mode is another implementation of vi/vim-like key-bindings for Emacs. The mercurial repository is available at http://bitbucket.org/lyro/vim-mode and the documentation at EmacsWiki http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/VimMode This version contains many improvements in existing motions and commands as well as new motions and commands and a new interactive search/substitute. Version 0.4 should contain most features I wanted to see vim-mode so we are heading toward 1.0 release. The main task are therefore code cleanup, bugfixing, implementation of missing commands and motions and minor improvements, but the core code should remain unchanged. Vim-mode is an package independent from viper or vimpulse and rewritten from scratch. Nevertheless vimpulse should be considered to be more feature-rich, more stable and more advanced, so I suggest to test vimpulse first before trying vim-mode. The reason is on the one hand the stable and well-tested viper-core of vimpulse, on the other hand that vim-mode is mainly a one-man-project which means that only those commands and motions that I use in my workflow are well-tested. Best regards Frank Fischer