11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Evil first-hand: 9 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“evil-mode has been a crucial part of my setup. A modal interface is simply easier to use”
endorse · personal · imiric · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“evil on Emacs has been great for me... Emacs/evil for at least 5 years or so. I've heard someone say that Emacs with Evil is a better vim than vim.”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · hmeh · 2024-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would not be using emacs as my everything if evil-mode was not a thing.”
endorse · personal · bergheim · 2022-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I really like it, and do the vast majority of my development in it as a common lisp developer.”
endorse · personal · emit_time · 2019-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Some things like macros or perfect register support are not there (evil is pretty great though)”
endorse · personal · WhatIsDukkha · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It has enough features for me to remove the overhead of an emacs + evil install just for org-mode.”
regret · personal · jcpst · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using evil mode and don't really see why you'd even want to move away from the vim bindings.”
endorse · personal · cgag · 2011-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Evil for a couple of months and love it. I switched from Viper+vimpulse and haven't missed a beat.”
endorse · personal · 0.2 yr · ryane · 2011-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've found Emacs' Evil mode to be very good. It even has sane buffer management. I've been using it for the past month or so.”
endorse · personal · 0.1 yr · lucian1900 · 2011-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There's Cream for a simpler Vim, and Evil for Vim bindings in Emacs. I've been using Evil+Emacs for the past month and it's quite nice.”
endorse · personal · 0.1 yr · lucian1900 · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Now that I could switch between the two without my fingers complaining”
neutral · personal · aidenn0 · 2021-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?