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		irahul on June 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I can’t stop using Vim What problems are you facing? Setting up evil mode takes just what the emacs wiki says. 1. Install emacs. Start emacs. "Alt-x package-install" press enter "evil" press enter. 2. Open your .emacs or .emacs.d/init.el. `(require 'evil) (evil-mode 1)` Done.

aidenn0 on June 30, 2014 [–]

Biggest problem for me when I first used evil was learning that C-g is what I need to press when I accidentally hit an emacs chord sequence and want to abort. I had to google a few times to find that out when Esc wouldn't get me out of the minibuffer.

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