On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:26, Michael Markert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 Sep 2011, Timothy Washington wrote:
>> Yes, I agree with Tom. I tried viper and vimpulse, but evil is the >> first emacs / vim plugin that feels natural. Thanks for writing it. > Could you elaborate on this? Why does it feel natural in contrast to > viper/vimpulse? I’m not Michael, but my feeling is, as others before me have stated, that Viper tries to hard to shield you from Emacs, while not doing a good enough job at it. Evil is a thin veneer over Emacs that provides all the niceties of Vi without trying too hard to make everything behave as in Vi. Most modes that should come up in Evil mode do so and most modes that shouldn’t don’t. It’s easy to figure out what mode you’re in and it’s always easy to get to the mode you want to be in. The mode and mapping management is simply better better in Evil than it is in Viper (with or without Vimpulse). Perhaps this is more of a feeling than anything else, but having Emacs, Viper, and Vimpulse fight over what to do with your input was a pain. Somehow, Evil manages to work together with Emacs to take care of your input in the best possible way. Also, Evil has all its settings set the way I want them by default. Viper, not so much… _______________________________________________ implementations-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/implementations-list
