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If your a vim person try evil mode. I hear great things.

mikekchar 11y ago
I have emacs open with org-mode and evil and use it all the time. It's fantastic. I didn't need to make any configuration changes to org-mode to use it with evil. Evil mode is still not set up enough like vim for me to use in my every day work, though. There are a few gotchas that are different. So I use vim as well as emacs. I just change windows in tmux when I want to use org mode. The only real downside is memory usage and it is inconvenient if you want to us capture in org mode (because you have to change windows). I'm slowly setting up Evil to support my workflow. I don't think there is anything I can't do, it's just a matter of implementing it. Rather ironically, I used emacs for 20 years before I switched to vim. I have discovered that I prefer modal editing and having a grammar to describe my edits rather than directly editing things. You would think that I could switch back and forth, but it completely blows me up. I seem to have learned emacs keystrokes and vim keystrokes in different parts of my brain...
- blaenk 11y ago
  I'm curious what things from Evil aren't "enough like vim" for you. I switched over after nearly a decade of loving vim and I feel like it's a better vim than vim itself, shockingly, in the sense that, for example, it's very easy to define new operators, motions, text objects, etc., and that the more popular/essential vim plugins had Evil implementations that worked better than the vim originals. Very rarely did I encounter discrepancies, and when I did, I reported it and it was resolved right away. Evil is an amazing project.
aidenn0 11y ago
I use emacs with evil-mode. It is great. I actually don't use org mode much though. It's one of the nicer tools I've tried, but I'm just not an organized person. Pretty much every organizational tool I've ever tried is really good at helping organized individuals become more organized, but do little to help those who are disorganized.
- bingojeeves 11y ago
  Most organized people sometimes get disorganized. At those times, if you have all your life in a single (or maximum 2) place, getting back to some level of organizedness becomes possible. I am extremely disorganized too, and I have seen org mode helps me in the getting back business - though you do have to invest seriously in org mode first to be comfortable enough in it. But org has the answer to this too : org-drill.

I have emacs open with org-mode and evil and use it all the time. It's fantastic. I didn't need to make any configuration changes to org-mode to use it with evil. Evil mode is still not set up enough like vim for me to use in my every day work, though. There are a few gotchas that are different. So I use vim as well as emacs. I just change windows in tmux when I want to use org mode. The only real downside is memory usage and it is inconvenient if you want to us capture in org mode (because you have to change windows). I'm slowly setting up Evil to support my workflow. I don't think there is anything I can't do, it's just a matter of implementing it. Rather ironically, I used emacs for 20 years before I switched to vim. I have discovered that I prefer modal editing and having a grammar to describe my edits rather than directly editing things. You would think that I could switch back and forth, but it completely blows me up. I seem to have learned emacs keystrokes and vim keystrokes in different parts of my brain...

blaenk 11y ago
I'm curious what things from Evil aren't "enough like vim" for you. I switched over after nearly a decade of loving vim and I feel like it's a better vim than vim itself, shockingly, in the sense that, for example, it's very easy to define new operators, motions, text objects, etc., and that the more popular/essential vim plugins had Evil implementations that worked better than the vim originals. Very rarely did I encounter discrepancies, and when I did, I reported it and it was resolved right away. Evil is an amazing project.

aidenn0 11y ago

I use emacs with evil-mode. It is great. I actually don't use org mode much though. It's one of the nicer tools I've tried, but I'm just not an organized person. Pretty much every organizational tool I've ever tried is really good at helping organized individuals become more organized, but do little to help those who are disorganized.

bingojeeves 11y ago
Most organized people sometimes get disorganized. At those times, if you have all your life in a single (or maximum 2) place, getting back to some level of organizedness becomes possible. I am extremely disorganized too, and I have seen org mode helps me in the getting back business - though you do have to invest seriously in org mode first to be comfortable enough in it. But org has the answer to this too : org-drill.