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viper: Overview

 
 1 Overview of Viper
 *******************
 
 Viper is a Vi emulation on top of Emacs.  At the same time, Viper
 provides a virtually unrestricted access to Emacs facilities.  Perfect
 compatibility with Vi is possible but not desirable.  This chapter tells
 you about the Emacs ideas that you should know about, how to use Viper
 within Emacs and some incompatibilities.
 
    This manual is written with the assumption that you are an
 experienced Vi user who wants to switch to Emacs while retaining the
 ability to edit files Vi style.  Incredible as it might seem, there are
 experienced Emacs users who use Viper as a backdoor into the superior
 (as every Vi user already knows) world of Vi!  These users are well
 familiar with Emacs bindings and prefer them in some cases, especially
 in the Vi Insert state.  John Hawkins <jshawkin@eecs.umich.edu> has
 provided a set of customizations, which enables additional Emacs
 bindings under Viper.  These customizations can be included in your
 ‘~/.emacs.d/viper’ file and are found at the following URL:
 ‘http://traeki.freeshell.org/files/viper-sample’.
 

Menu

 
· Emacs Preliminaries         Basic concepts in Emacs.
· Loading Viper               Loading and Preliminary Configuration.
· States in Viper             Viper has four states orthogonal to Emacs
                                 modes.
· The Minibuffer              Command line in Emacs.
· Multiple Files in Viper     True multiple file handling.
· Unimplemented Features      That are unlikely to be implemented.
 

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