Evil experiences

Fri Sep 23 15:08:12 CEST 2011

+1 on these last 3 answers - much better than anything that I could have
given.

Tim

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Nikolai Weibull <now at bitwi.se> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:26, Michael Markert
> <markert.michael at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 22 Sep 2011, Timothy Washington wrote:
>
> >> Yes, I agree with Tom. I tried viper and vimpulse, but evil is the
> >> first emacs / vim plugin that feels natural. Thanks for writing it.
>
> > Could you elaborate on this? Why does it feel natural in contrast to
> > viper/vimpulse?
>
> I’m not Michael, but my feeling is, as others before me have stated,
> that Viper tries to hard to shield you from Emacs, while not doing a
> good enough job at it.  Evil is a thin veneer over Emacs that provides
> all the niceties of Vi without trying too hard to make everything
> behave as in Vi.  Most modes that should come up in Evil mode do so
> and most modes that shouldn’t don’t.  It’s easy to figure out what
> mode you’re in and it’s always easy to get to the mode you want to be
> in.  The mode and mapping management is simply better better in Evil
> than it is in Viper (with or without Vimpulse).
>
> Perhaps this is more of a feeling than anything else, but having
> Emacs, Viper, and Vimpulse fight over what to do with your input was a
> pain.  Somehow, Evil manages to work together with Emacs to take care
> of your input in the best possible way.
>
> Also, Evil has all its settings set the way I want them by default.
> Viper, not so much…
>
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