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25 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 3 stories, 22 comments · first 2022-09-08 · latest 2025-09-13

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    Meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs
    story by Bogdanp · 2025-09-13 · 22 comments
  2. …more on emacs' basic features. [1] https://github.com/green7ea/dotfiles/tree/master/.emacs.d [2] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow [3] https://www.youtube.com/c/SystemCrafters
    comment by green7ea · 2025-08-09 · in Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs
  3. …to bring to your attention that Emacs already has a popular package named meow (for modal editing) https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
    comment by ssivark · 2025-03-02 · in Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting
  4. The article was apparently published in 2021 but meow has had a release as recently as October. https://github.com/meow-edit/meow There's also a Doom Emacs module: https://github.com/meow-edit/doom-meow This is HN submission is the first…
    comment by herewulf · 2024-11-24 · in Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil Emacs
  5. …my keybinding system in `meow`[1] (similar to Evil or the Kakoune/Helix text editing scheme). [1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
    comment by phforms · 2024-08-14 · in Emacs: Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc
  6. …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
  7. Using meow: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow I actually got keybindings in Emacs that are helix-like, so I use helix for certain projects and Emacs for others. The muscle memory transfers well.
    comment by sp33der89 · 2024-04-27 · in Ask HN: Any fun ways to learn Emacs?
  8. …be a gateway to trying emacs in anger. Still waiting for kakoune/helix mode for gnu readline... https://github.com/meow-edit/meow https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el
    comment by e12e · 2024-03-30 · in Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights
  9. Also see Meow[1], [2], which adopts some ideas from god-mode. [1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow [2]: https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html
    comment by _emacsomancer_ · 2024-01-04 · in Emacs commands I got by with for years
  10. …integrates pretty well, but Meow integrates perfectly and uses the action visible first approach. https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
    comment by ParetoOptimal · 2023-12-29 · in Emacs from Scratch Part Two
  11. …helpful as well https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/xah-fly-keys.html https://github.com/meow-edit/meow https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode
    comment by mgd · 2023-11-08 · in Ask HN: Does anyone Lisp without Emacs?
  12. https://github.com/meow-edit/meow Modal editing with seamless emacs integration avoiding the need for evil-collection type packages.
    comment by ParetoOptimal · 2023-08-01 · in Emacs is my new window manager
  13. Emacs has Meow which implements model editing with the Kakoune grammar: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
    comment by nequo · 2023-06-21 · in Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016)
  14. …have to configure it first to suit your keyboard layout, but there are pre-built configs [2] [1] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow [2] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/blob/master/TUTORIAL.org#k...
    comment by zvmaz · 2023-05-15 · in Devil Mode for Emacs
  15. …ikw/vim-keybindings-everywhere-the-ulti... Evil has been fantastic. That said, I'm intrigued by Meow: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow Meow inverts the order of commands: instead of vim's verb-count-object order, meow does…
    comment by ashton314 · 2023-05-04 · in Vim Keybindings Everywhere – The Ultimate List
  16. …gave it a try for a while, but had to go back to emacs ecosystem. This led me to inevitably tryout https://github.com/meow-edit/meow which I think is the best combination of fast, stable, well-integrated, similar to the kakoune model.
    comment by ParetoOptimal · 2023-03-31 · in Helix 23.03
  17. …C-f`) inspired by god-mode") [0]: https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode/commits/master [1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
    comment by _emacsomancer_ · 2023-03-04 · in The extensible vi layer for Emacs
  18. https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/blob/master/EXPLANATION.or...
    comment by clircle · 2023-03-04 · in The extensible vi layer for Emacs
  19. …either: - use evil-collection or - be prepared to design vim keybindings per mode or - instead use https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
    comment by ParetoOptimal · 2023-03-03 · in The extensible vi layer for Emacs
  20. …stock keybinds at all though, which is much nicer imo (I use a 'hybrid' editing style generally) 1: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
    comment by lillywastaken · 2023-03-03 · in The extensible vi layer for Emacs
  21. …much. Meow seems to provide the benefits of modal editing with most seamless integration in Emacs. https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
    comment by tuukkah · 2023-03-03 · in The extensible vi layer for Emacs
  22. …https://github.com/jyp/boon https://github.com/clemera/objed https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/ https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys https://github.com/Kungsgeten/ryo-modal…
    comment by josephferano · 2023-01-08 · in Ask HN: Best way to experiment with text text editing?
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    Why another modal editing package in Emacs?
    story by clircle · 2022-12-27 · 1 comment
  24. …great multiedit system that obsoletes macros in daily usage (Disclaimer, i work on meow) [0] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow [1] https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html
    comment by esrh · 2022-10-03 · in Joining the Church of Emacs
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    Meow: An alternate modal editing system for Emacs
    story by esrh · 2022-09-08 · 0 comments