Re: vim slow, Lisp, etc.

Ed Kostas wrote:
> 3- It seems that there is a Vi clone that does everything these lawyers want. It is fast in dealing with large Latex sources, it has an org-mode that works like emacs, etc. etc. It is called Evil. Third question: What am I loosing if I work with Evil?
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A little googling yields this: https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home
Which describes Evil as "an *e*xtensible *vi* *l*ayer for Emacs
<http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/>. It emulates the main features of
Vim <http://www.vim.org/>, and provides facilities for writing custom
extensions."

In other words, it makes emacs look like vim. So all the features
they're using now - including the analysis routines written in lisp;
through a simpler interface.

But a larger question here: Why are they even considering moving to
Vim? They seem to be using a lot of critical emacs features
(particularly those based on lisp) - how would they be able to do their
work without those features? If they're looking for a simpler
interface, then maybe Evil would help, but then there are a few nice
GUIs for emacs that might make more sense.

Miles Fidelman

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In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra

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