Evil

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Evil is an extension layer that lets you use Vim's modal editing inside Emacs. It reproduces normal, insert, and visual modes along with Vim's key bindings, text objects, registers, and macros, and is designed to work alongside Emacs's other features. Distributions such as Spacemacs and Doom Emacs adopt it by default, so Vim users often use it when moving to Emacs.

The extensible vi layer for Emacs.