evil-surround

Sure. https://pastebin.com/R7zmfhp0 I don't use a lot of plugins in vim so it's relatively trim. The only thing I'm planning on adding at this point is https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-surround. Ivy probably requires some tweaking to get the behavior right, and I'm not super familiar with it yet.

I’ve used Evil in Emacs with http://orgmode.org/, after having learned Vim. I’d say Evil is another great, thorough emulation of Vim. It includes even relatively-obscure features like visual block mode, R, K, v_o, :%!sort, ^W window split/switch/close commands, and Vim’s tree undo model. My only problems with Evil are where Emacs or Emacs plugins’ bindings conflict with Vim bindings, such as v_^G (that is, Ctrl-G in Visual mode) meaning “Quit” instead of “Switch to Select Mode”. Those conflicts aren’t really Evil’s fault – they’re inevitable when combining third-party plugins that don’t explicitly support Evil – but they can be annoying. I’d say you’re not missing much with Evil that would be in Vim. I suppose you’re mainly missing Vim’s large ecosystem of plugins that are made to work with Vim keybindings and Vim’s editing model – though

Are you aware of Evil[1] for Emacs? It also has a surround mode[2] to emulate vim's. [1] http://emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil [2] https://github.com/timcharper/evil-surround

Skip viper-mode and go straight to evil-mode, which is based on modern Vim rather than classic vi. It even supports a plugin system, so that missing features and popular extensions (like surround.vim) can be reimplemented with ease (https://github.com/timcharper/evil-surround). The difference between Vim and the original vi is pretty huge. Just as an Emacs user might be stymied by the missing Lisp support in uemacs or zile, a habitual Vim user leans on stuff like text objects and visual selections, which were never even a twinkle in Bill Joy's eye.

Here's the other vi emulation mode: http://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home It even has its own port of surround.vim: https://github.com/timcharper/evil-surround