alt Hacker NewsI mostly agree with GP on stateful controls, but emacs has never clicked for me like vim did. Perhaps it's because switching between modes feels more natural than a simple toggle.
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allarm • today at 2:08 PM
I have the same feeling and I use evil-mode in Emacs because of that. It's basically Vim inside of Emacs.
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Whereas I cut my teeth on emacs in the early 90's, so modal is what felt awkward. I wouldn't dislike vim's modes so much if it just had one combination insert/append mode that worked like every other editor out there (including a couple other modal editors I've used), but even after adding various hacks to my vimrc to help unify the two modes, I still stumble over the behavior differences in other places.
I really like the composable shorthand of vim's command set though, even if the only one I have in muscle memory is <esc>:wq