On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 23:26:57 +0000 (UTC), Herbert Sitz <hes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael -- No problem, this issue was of course brought up when I > started the project a year or so ago. Actually for the many Vim users > who have tried to make the transition to Emacs I think it is pretty > well known that there are several different Vim emulators for Emacs. > (Evil is a fairly new one I still want to try out; I'm not sure but I > think it's by same team and intended to supplant Vimpulse, which > itself extends Viper: http://gitorious.org/evil ) > > [...] > > Even now when I use Org-mode I mostly operate it using the menu system, not > with > the key-chord-combinations. One neat idea, I think, would be for someone to > extend Viper/Vimpulse/(or Evil) with keybindings that provide a usable > Vim-type > modal interface to Org-mode's features. That could be nice.
As far as I can tell, evil grew out the merger of viper and another vi/vim emulation mode (not viper). In particular, it was designed to extensible from the gound. Tom
