As many of you know, I’m fascinated by nontraditional users of Emacs. By “nontraditional users” I mean people outside of engineering and the sciences. I like to hear how novelists and people in the humanities leverage the power of Emacs in their work.
Almost all those nontraditional users learned to write their papers with—and are mostly still expected to use—the death traps that are Microsoft Word and Google Docs. It takes, therefore, an extraordinary commitment on their part to move to Emacs. Almost all who do, never look back.
Over at the Emacs subreddit, DevMahasen, who describes himself as a novelist and filmmaker, was already halfway there because he was a devoted NeoVim user. Still, he wanted to try Emacs but he couldn’t get his mind around it. Then he found the Emacs-kick repository, an kickstarter for Vim/NeoVim users. Once he tried that, everything clicked. Now he’s on his way to being another nontraditional Emacs user.
The Emacs-kick configuration is meant for Vim/NeoVim users and makes the transition as easy as possible. As you all know, I went through a similar transformation but I just took the plunge and started using vanilla Emacs. Honestly, it wasn’t that much of a problem but, of course, I’m not a nontraditional user and editors of various sorts seem natural to me so my experience may not be relevant to those who are.
Whatever type of user you are, if you’re considering transitioning from Vim/NeoVim to Emacs, you should give the Emacs-kick repository a look.