> Sivaram Neelakantan
writes: > > No offence to the CUA/EVIL developers but don't these 2 modes > > get in the way of Emacs mastery as David says. I can > > understand someone asking for the vi . (dot command) > > functionality equivalent in Emacs but why humour them with > > modes that are at cross purposes to Emacs proficiency? > After 12+ years of kosher Emacs use, some months ago I started > to use Evil and my editing proficiency (not to mention my RSSI) > improved noticeably. > We all agree that not everything that Emacs does is the best > for everybody. I'll go further and say that some Emacs things > are quite bad. Default keybindings, for instance. Absolutely right. I would have never come to Emacs if not for Evil, because the default keybindings would not have kept me sane long enough to discover how splendid Emacs is as a platform for hacking.