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The extensible vi layer for Emacs.

46 mentions on Hacker News by 39 people: 2 stories, 44 comments · first 2017-04-15 · latest 2026-07-30

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  1. …in the world tried to force all vim users to use emacs. That's why emacs has a vim mode[1]. [1] - https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by Balooga · 2026-07-30 · in Are We Stuck with Lean?
  2. …as evil-mode[1] - which surpasses the editing system from vi that it is based on - and Meow[2] 1. https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil 2. https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
    comment by turboponyy · 2024-05-27 · in Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor
  3. If you're not aware, check out evil-mode. https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by bqmjjx0kac · 2024-01-04 · in Emacs commands I got by with for years
  4. …> > Wait, you can use both? > > This can't be true... How... Yes. It's called evil-mode[1] [1]: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by gaws · 2023-12-28 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite tools?
  5. …As others have mentioned, there may be other keyboard options that might be more helpful as well https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/xah-fly-keys.html https://github.com/meow-edit/meow…
    comment by mgd · 2023-11-08 · in Ask HN: Does anyone Lisp without Emacs?
  6. https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by sys_64738 · 2023-10-17 · in Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?
  7. If you already know Vim, you should probably not use Emacs without Evil: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil It gives you comprehensive Vim bindings so what you need to learn to be comfortable in Emacs is very little. As a bonus, it also…
    comment by nequo · 2023-08-01 · in Emacs is my new window manager
  8. …And it's trivial to add these shortcuts. Evil[0] basically rewires everything to be Vim. [0]: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by skydhash · 2023-06-19 · in Imaginary problems are the root of bad software
  9. It does: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by nequo · 2023-04-20 · in Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel
  10. That's a guaranteed path to evil [1] [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by akiselev · 2023-04-18 · in Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)
  11. I just stopped worry and succumbed to https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil . Now I only mostly just fiddle with orgmode configs to generate nice looking HTML and PDFs.
    comment by phissenschaft · 2023-04-14 · in 916 Days of Emacs
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    story by xrd · 2023-03-03 · 97 comments
  13. …one vimmer to another, if you want to try out Emacs, I highly recommend doing it with Evil. [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by nequo · 2023-01-30 · in The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs
  14. evil mode! https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by pksebben · 2023-01-16 · in Wasavi – Vi editor for any webpage
  15. …implementation of Vim.[1] But for those who like neither Emacs nor Vim ... I don't know. [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by nequo · 2023-01-10 · in Learn Lisp the Hard Way
  16. Where humanity goes, evil [1] follows. [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by akiselev · 2022-12-15 · in When did our tools become our religion?
  17. It already has a good editor. It’s called evil mode: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by nequo · 2022-12-04 · in Emacs should become a Wayland compositor
  18. …out other peoples configs. UX wise, it's pretty different but I know a lot of people use Evil ( https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil ) or something similar to get a more vi like experience out of Emacs. If you're not vested in an Emacs…
    comment by cocacola1 · 2022-11-20 · in An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs
  19. …that helps you discover keybindings, too. And there is also cua-mode which I haven’t tried.[2] [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil [2] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CuaMode
    comment by nequo · 2022-10-03 · in Joining the Church of Emacs
  20. I haven't found that to be the case. https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by Narishma · 2022-09-28 · in Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket
  21. …that it was missing). 1: clisp is a specific implementation of common lisp, not an abbreviation 2: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by aidenn0 · 2022-09-05 · in Common Lisp vs Racket
  22. …a lot about Emacs. If you have any questions feel free to reach out—contact info in my profile. [0] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil [1] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs [2] https://github.com/jonpalmisc/.emacs.d/blob/master/init.el
    comment by jonpalmisc · 2022-04-06 · in What’s new in Emacs 28.1?
  23. > Well, there's a lot of games inside emacs There's a text editor [1] available too. [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by dotancohen · 2022-03-17 · in TUIs
  24. Don't get me started on the Evil Mode emacs users, trying to have it both ways. https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by acomjean · 2022-01-07 · in Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'
  25. or just alias it to emacs with 'evil-mode' :D https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by ajsnigrutin · 2022-01-07 · in Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'
  26. …pretty much any behaviour. I'm no fan of elisp, but it's much more reasonable than vimscript. [0] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil#readme
    comment by karlicoss · 2021-12-29 · in Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing
  27. …users are elite :) If you really prefer the vi syntax, there is even an "evil mode" for emacs - https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by ajsnigrutin · 2021-06-21 · in Free Stuff for Developers
  28. …package. I started with Vim and so I’ve always used evil. “Vanilla” emacs, spacemacs, now doom. [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by dfinninger · 2021-03-25 · in Emacs 27.2
  29. …I have to give any thought when I can use both and switch between them without much effort. [1]: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF · 2021-01-17 · in The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  30. https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=300
    comment by rozab · 2020-12-10 · in Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi
  31. https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil/blob/3f3b2fea87172f155e5f... It's defined in Evil (which Doom uses directly). Seems like you just need to figure out your bug.
    comment by WhatIsDukkha · 2020-09-10 · in Emacs is special regarding UIs
  32. …Or, if you like vi(m), evil mode [2] should be good to go. [1] https://ergoemacs.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by mapolone · 2020-09-10 · in Emacs is special regarding UIs
  33. …been a vim user, but regarding keyboard shortcuts, there's Evil[1], which is fairly popular. 1: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by Amorymeltzer · 2020-09-10 · in Emacs is special regarding UIs
  34. If you know VI I'd recommend Evil Mode: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil Helm is pretty amazing and almost worth the cost of Emacs by itself: https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/
    comment by base698 · 2020-04-15 · in Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
  35. …be apt. ;) [0] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs [1] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs [2] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil [3] https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac
    comment by lainwashere · 2020-04-15 · in Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
  36. …that gives me the same "interactivity" as emacs does. Of course, I edit text in emacs with evil: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by fredsir · 2020-01-23 · in My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks
  37. https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil ;)
    comment by jdormit · 2019-11-26 · in Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
  38. …and Emacs is really nice. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/GD... [2] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by alexhutcheson · 2019-10-09 · in C++ Ecosystem: Compilers, IDEs, Tools, Testing
  39. …viewer. Every visual app that I use daily in my terminal has "roughly Vim" bindings, from Emacs ( https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil ) to Zsh (bindkey -v) to Tig. 5. This is just as fast to start as `git log --graph --oneline`, but I get a…
    comment by vngzs · 2019-01-17 · in How to teach Git
  40. …the Vim version What you should have done is use magit and looked into the emacs version of vim: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by cup-of-tea · 2018-08-05 · in Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
  41. You can try Evil mode which gives you vim keybinds in Emacs: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by mattbreeden · 2018-06-30 · in Vim plugins I use
  42. Vim users used to, but now that emacs has a decent text editor[0], they can't. [0]: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by fasquoika · 2017-11-01 · in VS Code Roadmap 2018
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    story by 0x54MUR41 · 2017-10-23 · 0 comments
  44. Have you heard of Evil? https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil IMO - and I speak as someone who loves Emacs so much he has email, organisation, TODOs, calendaring, IRC, RSS and more in Emacs - vi actually does a better job of the mechanics of…
    comment by duncan_bayne · 2017-08-18 · in Show HN: Product Graveyard – Commemorating the most memorable dead products
  45. …can use things like evil [1] to have your vi-style modal editing and eat your Emacs cake too. [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by podiki · 2017-05-07 · in Why I like Vim so much [video]
  46. There's already a vi layer for emacs: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
    comment by pitaj · 2017-04-15 · in Iota – An LLVM IR to Common Lisp Compiler