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How is this any better than e.g. viper mode?

• thedz 11y ago
  it's a wrapper around the successor to viper mode (evil) that also attempts to introduce bindings in a smart (ymmv, obv) way. it's much more than just viper, but the ultimate goal is the same: to provide emacs with vim keybindings for prefer to want to use emacs that way.
• broodbucket 11y ago
  The main feature of Spacemacs over just plain evil is that it has a number of "layers" for different languages, utilities and emacs things, which introduce consistent, vim-friendly keybindings. With plain evil-mode, you'd have to tinker with every package you wanted to use and come up with some good vim-style keybindings. The Spacemacs layer setup does restrict you to what it supports, unless you want to do things manually.
• pyre 11y ago
  My understanding is the evil-mode emulates Vim, and viper-mode emulates Vi. Vim is "Vi iMproved", so it has more to it than just basic Vi.