Don't use evil mode it's dangerous and will make you mentally ill

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Is that what happened to you?

Kind of. I used to use vim every day and almost went insane. Luckily I was able to stop using it when I noticed that I had problems writing in other editors (clear signs of mental deterioration). I then decided that the only way to stop my vim addiction was to switch over to emacs and I uninstalled vim from my computer. At first it was difficult, my vim addicted brain would automatically assign three different functions to each command, resulting in a much slower learning time. I am happy to announce that I am now out of my vim addiction and my brain readapted to a normal and more healthy thinking process, in fact I couldn't write vim even if I tried.

This doesn't really make sense since different modes in Emacs also provide actions for the same keybinding. Good luck with fixing the mental illness and best of health to you.

what the hell, man if your brain can co-live with the idea of modal editing, you are gonna be fine your point is the same as to expect EVERY piece of software to share identical keybindings, so your brain doesn't get confused ever

I believe the word you're looking for is not "addiction", but "*epiphany*". Once you go hjkl, it's hard to go back.:wq

It's not the same thing, in emacs modes are clearly defined while in vi you only need 1 keypress to change the mode. I have no mental illnesses as I caught my vim addiction early on before it could cause any permanent damage.

No, vi keybindings are dangerous

C-n C-p C-f C-b are much more intuitive

Lmao this must be a troll account.

Seek help.

no

Counter argument: human *hands* cannot handle all of the different modifier key combinations that Emacs key bindings provide. For example, if you press Meta-Ctrl-Shift-j one time and then edit a different file that uses a different mode, and Meta-Ctrl-Shift-j does something different, the human hand immediately have painful RSI.

\`C-h i\` is the only help I need

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It will happen with emacs, you will eventualy doing emacs key combinations outside of emacs, what I would do in your case is to learn how to mentally switch context efficiently.

1 keypress vs two or more is the magic

It isn't the same thing. Macros are extensions of the way you edit text so if your brain uses them outside of emacs it understands that that particular piece of functionality is missing

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`hjlk` means absolutely nothing, and home row sucks on standard/laptop keyboards anyway

`:! emacs`

> you will eventualy doing emacs key combinations outside of emacs they work in readline/terminals, MacOS input fields, and oldschool X apps

This comes off as either unhinged or a riff on "stop doing X humans were never meant to do X they have played us for absolute fools" memes.

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