I was playing around with Evil and like it quite a bit. It feels better than the previous Viper/Vimpulse package I was using, plus documentation is good, clear, and it seems easy to customize.
One problem with Org for me has been keybindings. Even with a Vim emulator that does a decent job of vim-ifying Emacs, it still leaves all of the (numerous) Org-specific keymappings to deal with. It turns out to be quite easy to add custom keymappings to Org-mode to make commands accessible in a more Vim-like way. I've added the code below to my .emacs and it's a good start. Maybe some vim-friendly Org users will have ideas on how to grow it from here: (define-minor-mode evil-org-mode "minor mode to add evil keymappings to Org-mode." :keymap (make-sparse-keymap) (evil-local-mode t)) ; the ',<num>' keys give quick and easy way to hide/reveal outline ; structure of entire document (analogous to <shift-tab>); (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",1" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 1))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",2" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 2))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",3" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 3))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",4" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 4))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",5" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 5))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",6" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 6))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",7" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 7))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",8" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 8))) ; the ',,<num>' maps below give quick and easy way to hide/reveal outline ; structure of single subtree. depending on what sort of org ; documents you have, and how you use them, you may prefer ; to have these mappings use single ',' and have entire-document ; mappings use ',,' prefix. (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",,1" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 1))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",,2" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 1)(show-children 1))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",,3" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 1)(show-children 2))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",,4" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 1)(show-children 3))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",,5" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 1)(show-children 4))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",,6" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 1)(show-children 5))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",,7" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 1)(show-children 6))) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",,8" '(lambda() (interactive)(hide-sublevels 1)(show-children 7))) ; various commands mapped below (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",dd" 'org-deadline) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",ds" 'org-schedule) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",te" 'org-set-tags-command) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",ts" 'org-todo) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",r" 'org-refile) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",c" 'org-capture) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",ag" 'org-agenda) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map "<<" 'org-promote-subtree) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ">>" 'org-demote-subtree) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ">." 'org-move-subtree-down) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map "<," 'org-move-subtree-up) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map "gj" 'org-forward-same-level) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map "gk" 'org-backward-same-level) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map "gh" 'outline-up-heading) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map "gl" 'outline-next-visible-heading) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",g" 'org-goto) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",ex" 'org-export) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",ns" 'org-narrow-to-subtree) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map ",nw" 'widen) (evil-define-key 'normal evil-org-mode-map [(return)] 'org-insert-heading-respect-content) ; add hook to load evil-org mappings in all org documents (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'evil-org-mode)
