> [it doesn't enable] evil-mode (vim keybindings) by default
Is it easy or in any way advisable or otherwise a good idea to use Emacs with Vim keybindings---coming from a Vim background?
Is it easy or in any way advisable or otherwise a good idea to use Emacs with Vim keybindings---coming from a Vim background?
The advantage of using one of those over something like prelude + evil, is that the whole community tends to use the vim bindings, so all the supplementary material is oriented toward that sort of input, and your chances of getting questions answered goes way up.
Most often I just use TRAMP now for remote editing, instead of trying to switch between vim and emacs throughout the day or installing emacs on all of my servers.
At the same time, that's another reason I haven't yet tried evil-mode: it's such a massive change to the defaults that I worry I wouldn't be able to use a vanilla install of emacs successfully. But I guess I would be able to use vim instead. I probably overthink these things.