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gtbono
gtbono

Reputation: 483

Built-in Evil mode for Emacs 24

I've read in a lot of places such as the WikEmacs (http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Evil) that Emacs24 already came with support for Evil mode, no need to install it via el-get. But I can't seem to understand how do I activate it.

I tried just adding the

(require 'evil) (evil-mode 1)

lines to my .emacs but it can't seem to work, how do you guys use the built-in evil mode on emacs24? without cloning git repositories, etc.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 766

Answers (1)

legoscia
legoscia

Reputation: 41528

The statement on WikEmacs is false; evil-mode is not included in Emacs 24. (As it's a wiki, I just edited the page and removed that text.)

There are many ways to install evil-mode. I'd suggest activating the MELPA package repository by adding the following to your .emacs file:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)

Then type M-x list-packages, find evil in the list, and install it.

Upvotes: 4

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