Eh, good timing. I just migrated my config to evil. I gave the Emacs keybinds a year long chance, got a split keyboard with Emacs-friendly custom keymap (Alt u

Eh, good timing. I just migrated my config to evil. I gave the Emacs keybinds a year long chance, got a split keyboard with Emacs-friendly custom keymap (Alt under my left thumb, Ctrl under my right thumb) and life was pretty good, but I can now say that vim editing is hands down better than any Emacs incantation. That said, vim+Emacs together are even better than each in isolation. Nothing beats modal editing, with access to C-a, C-e, and other Emacs movement keys to be used in INSERT mode. The default evil config should promote this hybrid approach, rather than trying to turn Emacs into vim. Devil mode looks interesting, but still not as good as a true modal experience.