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by thingie 5398 days ago
So I use emacs with viper and it's great. I have no idea how to really edit text in emacs without vi mode and I can't open a file in vim without :q and running it again with a different argument. Yet I can edit text vi style and use superior (to vim) and convenient emacs features like modes, tramp, buffer management, org-mode…
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> I can't open a file in vim without :q and running it again with a different argument.

:e filename

You can try elvis. I havent tried it myself, but I heard it being a continuation of viper and vimpulse efforts.
I've been using it for only few days, but I think evil and Emacs makes a really nice enviroment. I finally managed to get capslock to be the key for evil-normal-state (default is ESC) and the world is a better place now. I recommend giving it a shot :-).