A proof-of-concept Emacs package for “Vim-like” editing. It turns out the concept was not so good so I probably won’t work on this further. Sorry!

See the documentation string for some rationale.

Features

Simple Keybindings

[X] hjlk
[X] HLM
[X] gj, gk: Logically opposite to Vim’s meaning of them, as Emacs behaviour is preferred.
[X] w, b, W, B: W and B use {forward,backward}-sexp, since this is comparable to the M-f - C-M-f correspondence.
[X] i, a, I, A, gI, gA, 0, $, ^
[ ] s, r
[X] gg, G: Hard-coded to beginning-of-buffer and end-of-buffer currently, which I deem acceptable since I assume that’s all most people use these for anyway.
[ ] e, E, ge, gE: Some of these may be unnecessary because of how Emacs’ forward-word positions the cursor.
[ ] %: I’ll only do it if I can find a built-in function for it. Potentially made redundant by W and B being bound to sexp navigation.

[X] f, t, F, T
[X] ; and ,
[X] /, ? and *: Currently put cursor after match instead of beginning, although the solution will be trivial.

[ ] <command> <motion> input style: Possible implementations
[ ] <motion> <command> input style (more similar to Kakoune):
- Potentially easier to implement; supposedly a more elegant design.
- Essentially already implemented by pressing v to set the mark first.
[ ] Line-wise operations