[hmeh]

evil on Emacs has been great for me. I’ve been using vim for 20 years (vim, visual studio, vim again, now Emacs) and Emacs/evil for at least 5 years or so.

I’ve heard someone say that Emacs with Evil is a better vim than vim. I’m inclined to agree.

[sourcepluck]

Ok, it's settled then! OP should have said:

"And they - vim implementations - are always frustratingly incomplete and/or buggy...

Except perhaps Emacs' evil-mode, with some users going so far as to claim that it's an even better implementation of vim-bindings than vim!"

:=D

P.S., off the back of your comment, I downloaded and started playing with Doom Emacs last night, as this thread reminded me of how great some people claim Doom and the vim bindings are. My Emacs has been stable for a while, with a basic enough configuration (only a thousand lines hah), so I'm in the mood for playing with some alternatives.

Being able to test very different configs now with "--init-directory" is really a nifty quality of life improvement which I had yet to fully appreciate!

[hmeh]

Hah. Yes, --init-directory is very useful.

I think Doom is a fantastic way to get started and know what's out there. I do suggest folks to eventually dive into building their own config. Having that much control over your work surface is where Emacs and its users can really shine, I think. It's a commitment though.