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by ecyrb 5324 days ago
> But it is so painful to try to switch. It's a heavy cognitive load to do even simple things like navigation.

You might be interested in viper mode [1], or another one of the VI emulation modes for emacs.

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViperMode
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aiscott 5324 days ago
Yes, I have tried viper mode, and it's a good effort. But it can only handle the basics, or at least when I tried it was just the basics. I have a ton of vim scripts customizing vim, adding features, etc., that just don't work with viper mode.

Part of me thinks that if I go over to emacs, I ought to go with the 'native' experience of it.

I appreciate the reply; and others may find Viper mode very useful.

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ecyrb 5322 days ago
vimpulse is an extension to viper and gives you (for example) visual mode (copy blocks using 'v').

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Vimpulse

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