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    [โ€“] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 hours ago

    I dislike Evil, and would never recommend it to anyone looking for a modal editing solution for Emacs. I would rather break my pinky with the modifiers than use Evil.

    • Evil is SLOOWWW: its startup time is 10x longer than other modal editing packages.
    • It has high cost of integration with other packages; editing-related packages rarely play well with Evil unless specifically designed for it.
    • We can do better than vi. Nowadays, there are some more modern alternatives to vi, like Kakoune that fix some of the fundamental problems with vi. One such problem is the fact that you cannot know what you are acting on until after the command completes: Kakoune solves this by having a unique noun verb syntax rather than vi's verb noun syntax. This means that you get constant feedback about what youโ€™re acting on before you act on it, since objects are always highlighted.

    Instead, for anyone looking for a serious and actually good modal editing, I would suggest them to try out meow. It fixes all of the problems I mentioned above, and makes more improvements to the vi experience that I didn't mention.