I gave it 21 days. Evil is by far the best vim emulator I have ever used. Seriously, nothing else comes close. It is also fairly trivial to fix the rough edg

I gave it 21 days. Evil is by far the best vim emulator I have ever used. Seriously, nothing else comes close. It is also fairly trivial to fix the rough edges via the init.el. > Lisp in Emacs is easier to learn Agreed, not so much because the baseline is simpler, but because it is consistent -- everything is a function call -- and once you get over the hump, this is a huge benefit. Vimscript has gobs of gotchas. > Also, the plugin / extension ecosystem is fantastic Can't agree here. The plugins are often hard / annoying to use and missing critical features. I still think (despite vimscript) that the vim plugins are far better in most cases. Decent fuzzy finding across everything I care about (files, tags, buffers, etc) is a rather robust example of where emacs falls down... I tried literally dozens of extensions.. to get basically a "meh" solution. At the end of the day, after using Evil 10 hours a day for 3 weeks -- I came the the conclusion that it is very good and very usable... some rough edges when you break out of evil mode, annoying console support (you need sr-speedbar, not speedbar), and annoying color schemes. It did make me focus my vim workflow a little more with tools like vimux (works with tmux), expandregion, easymotion and a few other tricks that I learned to love from emacs.