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I hear about the viper-mode and vimpulse stuff a lot, and while they go a long way towards helping emacs be more useful for text editing, I find the discontinui
by Xurinos 16y ago
I hear about the viper-mode and vimpulse stuff a lot, and while they go a long way towards helping emacs be more useful for text editing, I find the discontinuities disturbing.
For example, I am no longer in vi-mode if I end up in a help window of some sort. I cannot just Ctrl-W+Ctrl-W my way back to the original window; that suddenly deletes words. But I like working with multiple windows in vim sometimes. This gets frustrating for a vim user.
Also, macros are still not fixed, still using the emacs assumption of what people want for an enhanced vi. We want the easy qq and @q.
Definitely, if you are going to try it out, grab vimpulse. viper-mode is a joke to the developers coming from the vim world. vimpulse makes visual mode highlighting sensible.
- tumult 16y agohttp://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/viper-in-more-modes.el http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/viper-in-more-modes.el
- jrockway 16y agoviper is not for vim users, it's for Emacs users. As a long time Emacs user who doesn't really enjoy holding down the control key while editing text, viper is wonderful -- it gives Emacs a command mode, without making Emacs work like vi. If I wanted vi, I would just use vi. That's the logic behind Viper, anyway. I believe a few people are working on a vim emulation layer for Emacs; giving Vim users the ability to have a proper scriptable environment, without having to give up anything they know from Vim. Ask on #emacs.