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A comment on Emacs 25.1 RC1. Parent comment

Re:Emacs 25.1 RC1 by grabcocque on Monday July 25, 2016 @06:18AM (#12157657)
If you use evil mode it's a no brainer.

If you're an adherent of the holy church thinking of turning evil, then it will obviously take some relearning, but it's incredibly discoverable, making exensive use of hierarchical mnemonics and helm after each keypress to know what commands are available to you.

e.g. space-f-s is file->save, space-f-f is file->find, space-f-r is file->recent etc.

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Re:Emacs 25.1 RC1 by na85 on Monday July 25, 2016 @06:48AM (#12157743)
Yuck, is it modal? How do you type a space character?
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Re:Emacs 25.1 RC1 by wodenokoto on Monday July 25, 2016 @07:16AM (#12157846)
Are you implying that you expected a non-modal VIM mode?
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Re:Emacs 25.1 RC1 by s_kilk on Monday July 25, 2016 @06:56AM (#12157773)
You go into insert-mode (by pressing 'i') and type whatever you need, then press ESC to get back to normal-mode.

It takes some getting used to, but I could never go back :)

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Re:Emacs 25.1 RC1 by DigitalJack on Monday July 25, 2016 @07:06AM (#12157810)
It's only modal if that is how you want it. On first run it asks if you want to run in a vim-mode or normal emacs mode.
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