[tyingq]

"Finally, install evil-mode, the Vim emulation package for Emacs"

Anyone use this regularly? Does it kill off some of the upside of emacs?

[tarboreus]

Really, no. It's a huge portion of the user base of Emacs, and gets a lot of support. Might be a few issues here and there but highly surmountable and you'll be in company.

[hypersoar]

I don't use evil mode, but I don't see how it could kill any of the upside of Emacs, which has very little to do with keybindings.

[tyingq]

I was assuming it introduced things more meaningful than keybindings, like separate command and insert modes. I am not an EMACS user.

[tobbe2064]

It does:) that does not conflict with emacs in general :]

[dan-robertson]

Evil mode is very popular (see doom emacs or spacemacs which try to integrate lots of emacs extensions with evil mode on by default)

[asciimov]

I use it regularly. It integrates quite well with emacs and if you use the evil-collection you can add vim-ness to other modes.

Personally, I mostly just use evil for modal editing, as I am a long time vim user. Then I use the emacs shortcuts on top of that.