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Comment by laichzeit0 | Hacker News Reader

Evil still lacks q: and q/ for command and search history editing. Really pains me that they haven't implemented this yet. There's also nothing that 100% replaces the CtrlP plugin for Vim on Emacs.

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Please vote up the features you think Evil might be lacking, or better yet, contribute to the development effort :)

https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issues?kind=enhancement&sort...

And people complain about UI discoverability in vim, but the fact is if you know how to quit out of vim you will sooner or later bump into the command history; if you experience rogue-like joy in the at this moment you know vim was meant for you.

I don't know if it's by default but Vim also saves search / command history across sessions. So if you quit or accidentally kill the terminal and open Vim again, that history will still be there.

Yeah setting up fuzzy finding on emacs is a huge pain. It's not a hard problem to solve, so maybe if I end up making more use of evil I'll try and write something although elisp is not fun. I currently use helm, ido and projectile and it only kind of works as good as cntrlP or command+T on textmate or sublime text.

same here, also ido+helm+projectile; and not that ctrlP feeling yet.

i think this will be solved though (or is fixable), Vim on the other side does not seem very fixable to me.

I use Evil with emacs prelude now. Has more than enough features I need.

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