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Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org> writes:

> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
>
>> Do you know about Viper, a really good vi emulator inside Emacs? At
>> least it is very good in Emacs 22. Emacs 22 is not yet released but very
>> stable and will hopefully soon be in pretest.
>>
>> See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViperMode
>
> I second viper.  I used vi for many years before starting to use emacs
> (so that I could use gnus), and I don't think I'd be able to give up the
> command-mode/insert-mode distinction.  It's just too keyboard-friendly.
>
> I personally consider viper to be more of an implementation of vi in
> elisp; it generally works quite well with other emacs modes without
> interfering with their use.  There are a few exceptions, though -- I'd
> love to get viper to work better with folding.el, for example.

Jeremy, how did you generate your face header?