evil-leader

> Does this support configs in my .vimrc? Nope. > Can I use Vim plugins in it? Nope. Evil Mode exposes Emacs using a Vim interface. It's doubtful that it will ever run Vim plugins or read your .vimrc (particularly because it will not support things like autocmd or VimL). There are many ports of Vim plugins to Emacs for use with Evil. For example, evil-leader[1] brings support for leaders (Spacemacs makes heavy use of this with <Space> as the leader, hence the name). There are also many things in the Emacs world that Vim doesn't really have, like flycheck[2] or a decent hex editor (I've used vim + xxd, but Emacs' hex editor is nicer). [1] https://github.com/cofi/evil-leader [2] https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck EDIT: It's not a drop-in Vim replacement in the way that NeoVim is. It just brings modal editing and your Vim muscle memory to

I haven't dived into the details of Evil mode too much. The basic Vim motions and commands work out of the box, so for a casual vim user, it ought to be enough. I also went ahead and installed Evil-leader, so I could have the same <leader> keymaps that I have in my vim config. A few places where I looked for small things here and there: 1. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil 2. https://github.com/cofi/evil-leader 3. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8483182/evil-mode-best-p... 4. https://github.com/mixandgo/emacs.d/blob/master/my-evil.el 5. https://bling.github.io/blog/2013/10/27/emacs-as-my-leader-v... And I also got ido-vertical-mode so the emacs command buffer looks better. Here's my setup: https://github.com/mgill25/emacs See user.el Cheers! PS: Some of the configuration needs to be set up before you activate certain modes - which i