Evil
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13recommend
1warn against
Nov 1, 2025first mention
Oct 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Evil-mode in Emacs is just wonderful. It's the best vim-emulation layer”
“I can always use evil-mode if I want the vim bindings”
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“I switched to Emacs and Doom + eVil, and am relieved to be back in a nice stable system again”
“I use it full-time and 90% of my non-web-browsing work is in Emacs”
Caveats and dissent
Often compared with
1 moved from Vim to Evil
1 moved from IntelliJ IDEA to Evil
Who recommends it in their own words
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All comments 20
“Evil-mode in Emacs is just wonderful. It's the best vim-emulation layer”
“I can always use evil-mode if I want the vim bindings”
“I switched to Emacs and Doom + eVil, and am relieved to be back in a nice stable system again”
“I use it full-time and 90% of my non-web-browsing work is in Emacs”
“Maybe try ghostel with evil-mode”
“That's why emacs has a vim mode”
“Evil-mode in Emacs feels like a built-in feature.”
“I use Emacs with Evil-mode – the best of both worlds!”
“I use evil-mode in Emacs because of that”
“I used evil for about one year actually.”
“found author may try Evil”
“evil and org-mode did not mix well”
“I know, I use Emacs+Evil.”
“evil-mode is very good”
“evil-mode has been a crucial part of my setup”
“Evil mode and Doom made the jump possible”
“I use Org mode with Evil, to get VIM keybindings.”
“Evil-mode in Emacs is fantastically good”
“I use a very customized emacs/evil setup”
“using evil-mode was _very_ helpful in making the switch easier so I recommend that”