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Interesting - so IDE + Vim mode would be the best of both worlds. Do you find there is a lot lost in translation, or does that feeling carry over well? I'd be e

• dllthomas 12y ago
  I've typically found that vim impersonations miss at least a couple features that I use regularly. I've heard that Evil, in particular, is pretty complete though.
  • sea6ear 12y ago
    Evil is the first Vi/Vim emulation package that didn't frustrate me pretty intensely with things that didn't quite work as expected coming from Vim. However, it doesn't attempt to turn Emacs into Vim, it's more like it gives Emacs an acceptable Vi interface for the places where that matters. As a result, if you are using both Vim and Emacs contemporaneously, it's still easy to develop habits in one, that will cause you pain in the other. For example, because Evil still allows you to do a lot of Emacs shortcuts, and because :q kills Emacs if there's only one window open, I find myself doing C-x k a lot to git rid of buffers. However, that causes huge pain when I accidentally do that when I'm back in Vim. Instead I should really get in the habit of using :bd to get rid of buffers, but that's one aspect of Vim that I've never fully moved to from using naive vi style :q.