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"I have considered using EVIL mode, but I am wary of losing touch with default Emacs, as it's something that comes up from time to time as well" You're basical
by pmoriarty 5y ago
"I have considered using EVIL mode, but I am wary of losing touch with default Emacs, as it's something that comes up from time to time as well"
You're basically giving up almost everything that makes Emacs great: its ecosystem. Bare-bones, default, vanilla Emacs, without any packages or configuration is woefully underpowered compared to Emacs or vim with lots of packages and configuration. I hate to use either in their default states, and would have never switched to Emacs if I wasn't able to use Evil.
- trey-jones 5y agoOh, I'm not at all saying I use default Emacs, I'm just saying that I'm concerned that Evil would change it so drastically that I would forget how to use default Emacs. Default in this case meaning "not evil".
- pmoriarty 5y agoIn those rare situations where I need to edit a file on a machine that doesn't have Emacs+Evil, I just use vim or vi... which even when unconfigured are good enough to make small edits without much pain. So I get the best of both worlds: Emacs+Evil 99% of the time, and vim/vi 1% of the time when Emacs+Evil is not available.