ViEmu Testimonials
Want to get some third party's opinion? In the years since ViEmu was first released, it has received a lot of love and praise by customers. Here are a few links and excerpts to comments posted on various blogs and web sites:
“I fully expect that I'll pay for a license before the trial is up”
A blog post by George Reilly, the author of the Win32 port of vim: “I'm favorably impressed with ViEmu” “The author, who seems to be known only as JNG, is responsive. Within 24 hours of my reporting some missing keystrokes, he had implemented them in a new minor release” “I fully expect that I'll pay for a license before the trial is up” [ed: he did] |
“I'm in love... and her name is ViEmu”
A blog post by Griffin Caprio: “I'm in love... and her name is ViEmu” “Apparently the folks over there have been VERY busy because the current beta ( 1.4 ) is leaps and bounds ahead of their original version” “God I am in heaven.... AND ViEmu is on sale for only $49.95. It's a bargain for twice that.” [ed: this was 2005] |
“Make sure you go grab yourself a copy of ViEmu”
A blog post by John Lam, the author of IronRuby: “If you want even more productive key bindings, make sure you go grab yourself a copy of viemu” |
“He will forever be my hero”
A blog post by Aaron: “I almost took it upon myself to write this. When I worked at Microsoft, I submitted requests to the Visual Studio team to write this. Jon came to the rescue and implemented the now near-perfect ViEmu and he will forever be my hero.” |
“You simply must give this thing a try”
A blog post by "sticks": “You simply must give this thing a try” “After a search that lasted years, there is a really good vi emulator for VS.net” “I tried it for just two days before I realized that I really didn't want to go back and that the sum would be made up in happiness very quickly. So far, support has been excellent and I literally have no complaints” |
“VS.NET with ViEmu and ReSharper == nirvana”
A comment by Rik Hemsley on Derek Slager's blog: “VS.NET with ViEmu and ReSharper == nirvana” |
“The Perfect C++ Environment”
A comment on the famous “$70 is cheap anyway” “The perfect C++ environment” |
“Awesome editing power”
A comment by LukeB at the Ayende blog: [ed: commenting on 'i want it to be geared towards the keyboard developer'] “I use ViEmu for just that reason. Awesome editing power” |
“Jon has been great about fixing any quirks that have been found between viemu and ReSharper”
Another blog post by Griffin Caprio: “It actually works great. Jon, the author of ViEmu, has been great about fixing any quirks that have been found between viemu and ReSharper.” |
“It's really, really good. Well worth the money for Vi addicts.”
A blog post by Rik Hemsley: “I've been trying out ViEmu recently. It gives Vi-style (actually, vim-style) editing capabilities to VS.NET. It's really, really good.” “I found myself doing things automatically and not noticing that they ‘just worked’. For example, I automatically started saving by using :w, selecting using v and searching using /. Well worth the money for Vi addicts.” |
“ViEmu is great in Visual Studio”
A post on the "Almost Serious" blog: “ViEmu is great in Visual Studio” |
“Awesome addon that was definitely worth the price”
A blog post by Michael Eaton: “Hi, my name is Mike and I'm a vim addict” “In order to maintain my sanity while working in Visual Studio, I use ViEmu” “Awesome addon that was definitely worth the price” |
“I can't live without ViEmu”
Another blog post by Michael Eaton: [ed: commenting on DevExpress Refactor!] “Of course, I'll have to make sure it works with ViEmu, because if it doesn't, it loses since I can't live without ViEmu” [ed: I made sure ViEmu works fine with Refactor!] |
“ViEmu is a cool add-in”
A review on the Hackszine magazine: “ViEmu is a cool add-in that brings vi/vim editing modes to several Windows apps, including Visual Studio, Word, and Outlook. It seems to have a lot of features that vi users are used to, and George V. Reilly (originator of the Win32 version of Vim, and currently releasing Win64 versions) has kind words for it.” |
“I can't tell you how much more productive I am using ViEmu”
And yet another blog post by Michael Eaton: “Sweet! Just got an email letting me know about the release of ViEmu 2.0. I can't tell you how much more productive I am using ViEmu. Awesome job Jon!” |
“ViEmu shoutout: Its impressive.”
A blog post by Kevin Berridge: “Today I finally got myself in gear and bought ViEmu and installed it at work. ViEmu shoutout: Its impressive.” “It can't be easy to make Visual Studio play well with the Vim input model, but ViEmu manages it flawlessly.” |
“[it costs $$$], but the productivity boost is worth it to me.”
A comment by Shawn Wheatley on Ian Bicking's blog: “I'm evaluating ViEmu. This gives me all the functionality of Visual Studio (intellisense, build management, etc.) For Java (and possibly Python in the future, via PyDev), Eclipse has viPlugin. Both of these add-ons cost $$$, but the productivity boost is worth it to me.” |
“if you learn vi keys, you can get viemu for vs.net - and be ultra productive :)”
An IRC comment by zyccus on the #charp channel in freenode: “if you learn vi keys, you can get viemu for vs.net - and be ultra productive :)” |
“I'm a lot more productive than before”
A blog post by the author of dbdesc: “I probably only use 30% of its commands but I'm a lot more productive than before” “Now, he has just released ViEmu for Microsoft Word and ViEmu for Microsoft Outlook! There's only one word: AMAZING!” |
