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I've used Vim exclusively for 12 years. Over those 12 years I tried switching to Emacs no fewer than 5 times. The longest it stuck was 3 months, and I still fel
by jballanc 11y ago
I've used Vim exclusively for 12 years. Over those 12 years I tried switching to Emacs no fewer than 5 times. The longest it stuck was 3 months, and I still felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders when I switched back to Vim.
6 months ago I switched to spacemacs and haven't looked back since.
- ymse 11y agoMy story is similar to yours. Spacemacs really is the best of both worlds: the Emacs ecosystem of packages combined with good defaults and without carpal-tunnel inducing keybindings.
- sevensor 11y agoThank you for this! I'm trying it now. It feels much more familiar than my previous attempts at using evil-mode, and seems to work nicely even in a terminal window.
- sillysaurus3 11y agoI just tried evil mode a few days ago and felt blown away by it. May I ask what problems you ran into? I believe you, and I'm trying to find out what to watch out for.
- sevensor 11y agoMy problem was mucking around with regular emacs stuff whenever I was trying to get into evil-mode or out of emacs. 17 years of vim muscle-memory trips me up every time I try to recall the magic combination of keys that does what I want. I never made it far enough to use emacs to modify my emacs configuration and enable evil-mode by default. Spacemacs seems to make this a lot easier by setting up evil-mode for you. It also replaces all of the control-this and meta-that with hitting the spacebar in while you're in command mode.
- jraines 11y agoMaybe I've got too many layers enabled but I just had that feeling of relief because Spacemacs was just too slow.