[dvdkhlng]

> Long love ergomacs!

I recently stumbled over, and started using (and modifying) Xah's "xah-fly-keys" emacs bindings, which are a somewhat more radical implementation of the ideas behind ergoemacs (e.g. use Emacs without any "chording", i.e. without ever having to press two keys at once apart from shift+letter).

[1] https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys

[dotancohen]

Why not just use Evil, the VIM emulation layer.

[dvdkhlng]

> Why not just use Evil, the VIM emulation layer.

To cite Xah [1]:

"xah-fly-keys.el is a modal editing mode for emacs, like vi, but the design of key/command choice is based on command frequency statistics and ease-of-key score. Most frequently used commands have most easy keys."

I can confirm, that the amount of work on the hands is extremely reduced with xah-fly-keys vs. vanilla emacs (depending on where you put the command mode switch), though I have no experience with evil or vi to compare against.

[1] http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/ergoemacs_vi_mode.html

[justinhj]

This really disregards the compositional aspect of vims commands