[xdc55]

I'm a emacs convert from vim (big reason is because module support is just leagues ahead of vim, Vundle, Pathogen, or anything else don't come close to emacs package management). A huge reason why I stuck with it is because evil. evil is very mature and is incredibly close to vim, some say it's a better vim than vim.

I tried a lot of "vi modes" in several IDEs but none of them cut it, you can map anything to evil and you can, of course, map commands to different states. Something I found very usefil is that you can even set states for different buffers, for example, for magit buffers (another amazing emacs module and a very good reason to use emacs) I default those to "insert" mode.

I haven't used Intero myself, but I've yet to find any kind of conflict between evil or any other module.

[MichaelGG]

Evil seems to get some things wrong or weird. If I use the mouse, then using . to repeat last edit doesn't work. I've also had issues using macros sometime.

It also seems to have severe performance issues. Maybe it's Emacs, or rust-mode. But, say, running a macro 1000 times on a 10K line file is far slower than using vim.

But overall it's pretty great. I have the feeling it's easier to configure, once I get familiar with Emacs/elisp.

[minikomi]

For what it's worth, I've had trouble with macros as well. Sometimes they run at a glacial pace. Very strange.

[waivek]

I tried to use Spacemacs but in vim I have hjkl mapped to jkl;. I simply could not find a way to do this in Spacemacs. All the solutions suggested did not apply to every mode and there was always some mode where I had to revert to hjkl. Is there any solution for this problem?

[triplepoint217]

I use spacemacs and want to play with the vim part more, but I type dvorak, so I wanted to do a similar remapping and remap hjkl to htns so I would also be curious to hear if anyone has a good way to do that.

[mijoharas]

There appears to be a keyboard layout layer on develop[0] with support for dvorak.

Personally, I started looking into this when I started, but just got used to how hjkl are on dvorak (I still need the ability to be able to pick up with any random vim/vi I find on any random box, and don't find the utility in trading that).

[0] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/develop/layers/%2...

[seagreen]

Uh oh, this is pretty convincing=)