mlessvim.el (pronounced modeless-vim-dot-el) seeks to provide a lot of vim's useful editing commands in emacs without:

• Requiring the user to continually switch between normal and insertion modes.
• Rebinding existing emacs commands.

mlessvim.el provides a customizable prefix key which when followed by a sequence of keys performs some vim-like operation. For example:

<prefix key> d w

will delete the current word

<prefix key> c i (

will copy the contents of the current quoted region without the surrounding quotes.

<prefix key> *

will highlight all occurrences of the current symbol...

mlessvim is very much still under development but seeing as it is basically a set of key-bindings it may still be useful. In particular, the following features have not yet been implemented:

• Repeating the last operation
• Performing an operation several times
• Going to matching delimiters
• Stripping / changing surrounding delimiters
• Other things you might care to suggest...

Download mlessvim.el here - should you feel inclined. This download includes documentation and installation instructions.

Contact

If you'd like to tell anything about this you can find me here.