I didn't try vim plugin but in general, no vim plugin is substitute for vim.

If you mostly just want the memorized shortcuts to work, they tend to work OK in VSCode, Atom, IntelliJ and even Emacs - Spacemacs is even a better ViM for some.

As someone who did a fair amount of hacking in vimL, evil-mode is a drastically improved vim. It gets basically everything right, out of the box, and extending it isnt nearly as painful as using vimL or interacting with vim's Python API.

> It gets basically everything right, out of the box

Custom bindings don't work on the default document. That's a pretty big failure right out of the box.

And I still prefer vimL to lisp, it's the php of editor extension languages. It's not great for big plugins but ok great to slap things together quickly.

It doesn't, in my experience, get insert mode shortcuts like C-h right out of the box because it clashes with emacs' help mode functionality.