Post #1782171
2026-04-28 21:17 UTC
Replies (7)
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@paniash@mstdn.social 2026-04-28 21:18
I'm currently looking at meow since they state in their readme: "Meow aims to blend modal editing into Emacs with minimal interference with its original key-bindings, avoiding most of the hassle introduced by key-binding conflicts." Looks like it might be a smoother transition from evil compared to directly moving to vanilla bindings. (2/2) Interested to hear what package authors use too: @tarsius@fosstodon.org @minad@mastodon.world @oantolin@mathstodon.xyz @yantar92@fosstodon.org #emacs
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@gecht@chaos.social 2026-04-29 06:32
@paniash@mstdn.social Evil by default for me, and has been for more than a decade. But I do use the occasional non-evil keybinding. Honestly, just whatever works for me in the moment. I think I’ve learned to stress less about trying to optimise the last percentile of my productivity at this point!
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@jaredj@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-04-30 15:34
@paniash@mstdn.social i use devil-mode, which is vanilla-er than meow. i've also used meow, boon, and xah-fly-keys. for me it wasn't just the key bindings themselves being unsupported by add-on packages - it was that there were major modes where the modality itself was screwed up, and e.g. i couldn't type a letter 'x' in a vc changelog message because it was almost but not quite in insert mode. Maybe I wasn't sufficiently init-bankrupt before trying it? Anyway I've been pretty happy with devil-mode for a few years now
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@harish@hachyderm.io 2026-05-01 16:29
@paniash@mstdn.social I’ve been using Emacs since I was a teen and I’ve only used the vanilla key-bindings.
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@ringtailringo@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 20:49
@paniash@mstdn.social I use boon which I made pretty close to emscs keybindings, only modal. This way I don’t have to switch into command mode all the time.
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@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org 2026-05-03 10:26
@paniash@mstdn.social recently switched from vis to emacs. i just use default emacs keybindings, except for ctrl+j to enable multiline edit, which matches vis
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@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-03 17:14
@paniash@mstdn.social vanilla, I nuked many of my custom keybindings a whole ago(before that I used to use evil.) I have a personal rule that if a keybinding already exists, I will only use that keybinding and not rebind it.