Learning emacs has been something I've been pushing back for too long. Currently I'm a Vim user but I'm deeply unsatisfied with the way it integrates to my othe

Learning emacs has been something I've been pushing back for too long. Currently I'm a Vim user but I'm deeply unsatisfied with the way it integrates to my other tools like debuggers and build systems. Emacs is far superior when it comes to this, even the best of Vim plugins are not as good. But I like the Vi input model so much that I want to be able to use it in Emacs. I've understood that "evil" is the preferred Emacs-Vi-input layer these days (instead of viper or other alternatives). I'm going to use Emacs 24. Any suggestions for migrating from Vim to Emacs?