Hi, my name is Frank Fischer and I'm the maintainer of vim-mode, another package providing ViM-like key bindings for Emacs. I'm following the development of Vimpulse, too, and it seems to me that Vimpulse tries to drop its Viper-connections in the next releases. Well, not relying on Viper with its hard-coded commands was the main reason for me to start vim-mode about two years ago. Now vim-mode is quite advanced since then, all based around a relatively small core and a lot of commands and motions, freely configurable and so on. It has all I need in may daily workflow, but this does not mean it's complete or perfect or whatever. Because Vimpulse and vim-mode both seem to have the same goal or very similar goals, providing more of Vim's features, and somehow replacing the old viper-code by more structured core, the natural question arises if we should try to join both projects to a common one. I think both projects currently have their strengths and weaknesses and certainly both of us learned a lot about the difficulties when trying to make Emacs behave more like Vim, and sharing this experience may be a good idea. So, what do you think? Bye, Frank Fischer