While Doom defaults to Vi bindings with evil mode (and has awesome defaults to use evil mode almost for all modules) I don't think it's mandatory at all and you

While Doom defaults to Vi bindings with evil mode (and has awesome defaults to use evil mode almost for all modules) I don't think it's mandatory at all and you should be able to enjoy it without evil (I haven't tried but after all, non-evil key bindings are the default on Emacs :) ) See https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/modules/editor/evil/README.org#how-do-i-remove-evil https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/modules/e...