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Re:Vim Anti-Patterns by the_duke on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:34PM (#12646500)
Best of both worlds: http://spacemacs.org/

Modal editing is far superior, once you learn it.

Emacs runtime and configurability thanks to Elisp is far superior to VimL.

So just use Spacemacs. ^^

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Re:Vim Anti-Patterns by sham1 on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @03:21PM (#12646903)
It works until one wants to create their own configuration stuff and functions and stuff. Much rather just stick with normal emacs configs and stuff and put in EVIL-mode once my pinky finger can no longer reach Ctrl (Not a worry seeing as I need Ctrl for gaming as well).

Also, installing plugins requires one to create one's own layer? Eww.

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Re:Vim Anti-Patterns by the_duke on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:03PM (#12647295)
It's complicated, true.

But it does a lot of work for you.

I started to create my own setup from scratch with Evil etc.

But recreating all that Spacemacs has, especially with customizing all the plugins for Vim keybindings, is countless hours of work.

You can skip the layers and side-install custom plugins quite easily though.

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Re:Vim Anti-Patterns by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:47PM (#12646617)
I can't stand Spacemacs: it's far too complicated, and I'd rather write my own configs, thanks. Also, I could never get used to Vim-style modal bindings.
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