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With the exception of certain corner cases, when evil-mode doesn't exactly emulate vim it's considered a bug and should be reported as such.

I have run in to some of those corner cases myself, and had to ask myself whether they were worth giving up Emacs and evil for, and the answer for me that was that they weren't. Both are way too useful for me, and an occasional hiccup here and there isn't worth giving them up and going back to vim.

Also, I don't run in to those corner cases very often. Maybe 95% percent or more of the vim commands and features I use myself are completely emulated by evil without issues.

One other thing to ask yourself when running in to such cases is whether they're really an incompleteness in evil's vim emulation or maybe just a lack of a keybinding or some function that you could easily write yourself (if you know eLisp).

It's taken some elbow grease, but I've ironed out a lot of the wrinkles such as missing vim-like keybindings in modes that don't come with them by default (others use spacemacs or doom for this).




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