https://github.com/krisajenkins/EvilBegins

Vim user? Emacs curious? Try this...
https://github.com/krisajenkins/EvilBegins

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Vim user? Emacs curious? Try this...

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/krisajenkins/EvilBegins
• Owner: krisajenkins
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-09-28T14:29:11.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-04-11T08:29:43.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T16:46:56.870Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Emacs Lisp
• Size: 17.6 KB
• Stars: 35
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.org
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
* Evil Begins

*Deprecated* If you want an easy way to get started with an Emacs/Vim

hybrid, these days [[http://spacemacs.org/][Spacemacs]] is probably your best choice.

** Overview

Are you a Vim user? Tempted to try Emacs? This is for you.

** About

I'm a Vim user. My two favourite implementations of Vim are:

1. Vim. (Most operating systems.)

2. Evil. (Emacs OS only.)

If you want to try option 2, (for reasons including, but not limited

to, Clojure awesomeness), this should give you a good starting

point. Broadly speaking, it gives you Vim-style editing in an Emacs

environment.

** Getting Started.

The "try before you buy" setup is:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh

$ git clone https://github.com/krisajenkins/EvilBegins.git

$ cd EvilBegins

$ ( HOME=`pwd` emacs )

# Alternatively OSX Users might prefer:

$ ( HOME=`pwd` open /Applications/Emacs.app/ )

#+END_SRC

That'll let you give it a spin without making any changes outside the

cloned directory.

(Note that the first time it runs, it'll download a truckload of

dependencies, so you'll need to be patient.)

Play around, and if you like what you see then:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh

$ cp ./.emacs ~/

#+END_SRC

...to make it your default =emacs= setup.

** Feedback

This project will never be exactly like Vim, and it's not supposed to

be. Emacs is a different beast. Rather, the aim is to allow you to

carry your muscle-memory across to a new environment.

If you try this project and /immediately/ miss Feature X, please let me

know. It should probably be in here, especially if it's a built-in

feature of Vim.

If you try this project and a week later miss Feature X, please let me

know anyway - I'd like to help - but it probably means you're ready to

dive deeper into Emacs.

** Credit

This all stands on the glorious shoulders of [[https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home][evil-mode]]. All I'm really

doing is packaging it up in an easy-to-get-started fashion.