THE VIDEO SHELF · vim to emacs migration
Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs
Aaron Bieber, a longtime Vim user, describes his experience trying Emacs with evil mode. He covers what he found, what he missed from Vim, and what Vim could borrow from Emacs.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it to Vim users considering Emacs, and several say it persuaded them or their coworkers to switch.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- thoughtbot
- Topic
- vim to emacs migration
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
TL;DR: Watch this video: the stated reasons for switching are very similar to my own. It wasn't until I watched this video and read the book that I took the plunge to switch to emacs. It was the fact that with emacs I could have …
blaenk on Hacker News · 2015-07
In What's new in Magit 2.xI, as a Vim user myself, recently saw this and decided to give emacs a try. I still have a long way to go but I have to say that it really does look like it might be the best of both worlds. [VIDEO]
kristiandupont on Hacker News · 2015-07
In Firemacs: Emacs keybindings for FireFoxYou might find this article useful: [LINK] Aaron gave a great talk about his switch here: [VIDEO] , which caused several people at work to move off NeoVim and give emacs a go.
endgame on Hacker News · 2016-07
In “Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB” [video]
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.