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emacs-evil
evil
Emacs Lisp2017–2026
emacs-evil / evil

evil

The extensible vi layer for Emacs.

39Distinct people
46Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
3.9KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

The extensible vi layer for Emacs.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

> What both Emacs and Vim have in common is an intimidating learning curve. You can't just dip your toe in. Another thing that Emacs and Vim have in common is Vim…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:23:53 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year46 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-04-15 22:23:13 UTC to 2026-07-30 17:45:40 UTC.

0369122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 1 submissions, 11 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12111
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It emulates the main features of Vim, and provides facilities for writing custom extensions. Also see our page on EmacsWiki. Installation See the official documentation for installation instructions. We recommend using package.el. As a quickstart, you can add the following code to your Emacs init file. ;; Set up package.el to work with MELPA (require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")) (package-initialize) (package-refresh-contents) ;; Download Evil (unless (package-installed-p 'evil) (package-install 'evil)) ;; Enable Evil (require 'evil) (evil-mode 1) Dependencies Evil requires Emacs 24.1 or later. Evil requires any of the following for C-r: undo-redo from Emacs 28 The undo-tree package (available via GNU ELPA) The undo-fu package (available via MELPA and NonGNU ELPA) For the motions g; g, and for the last-change-register ., Evil requires the goto-chg.el package (available via MELPA and NonGNU ELPA), which provides the functions goto-last-change and goto-last-change-reverse. For Emacs 24.1 and 24.2 Evil also requires cl-lib. Documentation The latest version of the documentation is readable online here. It is also available as PDF and as EPUB. Mailing list Evil is discussed at the gmane.emacs.vim-emulation mailing list. IRC Visit us on irc.libera.chat #evil-mode. Contribution See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines for issues and pull requests.
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