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0 pointsemidln9y ago0 comments

As someone who did a fair amount of hacking in vimL, evil-mode is a drastically improved vim. It gets basically everything right, out of the box, and extending it isnt nearly as painful as using vimL or interacting with vim's Python API.

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flukus9y ago

> It gets basically everything right, out of the box

Custom bindings don't work on the default document. That's a pretty big failure right out of the box.

And I still prefer vimL to lisp, it's the php of editor extension languages. It's not great for big plugins but ok great to slap things together quickly.

Lio9y ago

It doesn't, in my experience, get insert mode shortcuts like C-h right out of the box because it clashes with emacs' help mode functionality.

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