+1 on these last 3 answers - much better than anything that I could have given.
Tim On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Nikolai Weibull <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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