On 2009-03-04 18:41 (-0800), Michael Mossey wrote:
> I do think that Vim's modal editing looks vastly superior to Emacs...
> now if I can only find a Vim-mode for Emacs! Probably exists out that
> somewhere.
Emacs has viper-mode which makes it a Vi editor. Then there is
Vimpulse[1] which works on the top of viper-mode. Its descriptions says
emulates Vim's most useful features, including Visual mode
I have never tried Vimpulse though. I don't use viper-mode either but I
have tried it a couple of times and it seems to be working nicely.
viper-mode has been part of standard Emacs more than ten years already.
I'm an Emacs user nowadays but I agree that Vi/Vim model is very fast
and nice for basic text manipulation. I don't think it's because of
modes; I think the best idea is the operator+motion thing. It gives a
lot of powerful commands which are easy to remember and are
"conceptually beautiful" :-) . In the end I still prefer Emacs' more
intelligent commands and extensibility, and also the fact that there are
so much cool and well-written features already implemented, so the
extensibility is not only theoretical. Emacs assimilates everything.
Emacs' default cursor movement keys are not anything to be proud of.
Eventually I implemented a global minor mode, ergo-movement-mode[2],
which defines new cursor movement keys like this:
i
Alt+ j k l
Ctrl+Alt+j and l do backward-word and forward-word. Now moving is nice
again.
OK, enough rambling. Both are really excellent text editors and
interesting environments. I read both Emacs and Vim mailing lists.
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1. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/vimpulse.el
2. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ergo-movement-mode.el
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