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If you want to use a spreadsheet with vi key bindings, most linux distros have sc (spreadsheet calculator) in their repositories. It's kind of a cross between vi and the DOS version of Lotus 1-2-3. A newer, improved version of sc with features including undo/redo and csv/tsv export and import is sc-im (https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im).

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Vim keybindings are not Vim. The same claim is made about Vim emulators in IDEs. IntelliJ has the best Vim emulator I've ever seen, and it's still useless to a Vim power user.

While I don't know IntelliJ's emulation, I have to say that I find Evil-Mode for Emacs to be nothing short of amazing.

As a user of both (I use IntelliJ for Scala development and Spacemacs for everything else), I'd say Evil is way way better. The IntelliJ vim plugin is awesome, but it will never feel as integrated as Evil does. Emacs is way more extensible.

I think that's the most important differentiator evil has.

Embedding vim-style editing in an IDE or less extensible editor might get you 90% of what you want from Vim, but that 10% can be a dealbreaker depending on your workflow. Without easy extensibility, you might not be able to get that last 10% at all.

I'd say evil starts out a little better, maybe 95% out of the box, but now you have all the power of emacs to make up that last 5% and then start to go even further if you're not content then.

Evil is just the most complete vim that isn't actually vim

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