Evil Mode

As an Emacs beginner, I would like to learn Emacs's key bindings while change to vim's key bindings occasionally when I get stuck. So this is my settings for now, when I have deeper understanding of how Emacs & evil-mode works latter, I maybe change this settings for more typing effeciency.

What is Evil Mode

Evil Mode is the extensible vi layer for Emacs. If you already known vim's key bindings, you would likely want to try it in Emacs. Home Page is Here.

Install Evil Mode

Install evil package from MELPA. See the official documentation for installation instructions.

Basic Usage

The goal is to enable Evil Mode, but set default state to emacs state.

Goto menubar: Option - Customize Emacs - Specific Option (or use M-x customize-option) to set evil-mode to on and set evil-default-state to emacs.

This will add following two lines to your Emacs's init.el.

;; below (custom-set-variables
 '(evil-default-state (quote emacs))
 '(evil-mode t)

Now when I need goto evil state, I can press C-z to change to evil state and then happily using vim's key bindings. Another C-z will change state back to emacs.

TODO: How to show evil state in powerline?

I have customized my emacs interface with powerline with basic setup. the evil-mode state didn't show up. How can improve this?

TODO: What are other key bindings evil-mode generated besides C-z?

C-h k C-z gives me C-z is bounded to evil-exit-emacs-state command, what are other key bindings?

TODO: Try evil-mode somewhere else other than editing

Evil-Mode can be used elsewhere other than editing, like Dired, Org-Mode etc., apparently a lot of work of remapping key bindings will be needed. How to do that in an elegant way?