How To Install emacs-evil on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-evil in Fedora 36. emacs-evil is Extensible vi layer for Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-evil on Fedora 36.

What is emacs-evil

Evil is an extensible vi layer for GNU Emacs. It provides Vim features like Visual selection and text objects, and is the successor of Vimpulse and vim-mode.

We can use yum or dnf to install emacs-evil on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-evil.

Install emacs-evil on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-evil using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install emacs-evil

Install emacs-evil on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-evil using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-evil

How To Uninstall emacs-evil on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the emacs-evil package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove emacs-evil

emacs-evil Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/emacs-evil
/usr/share/doc/emacs-evil/CHANGES.org
/usr/share/doc/emacs-evil/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/emacs-evil/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/emacs-evil/README.md
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-command-window.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-command-window.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-commands.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-commands.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-common.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-common.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-core.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-core.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-development.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-development.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-digraphs.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-digraphs.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-ex.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-ex.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-integration.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-integration.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-jumps.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-jumps.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-keybindings.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-keybindings.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-macros.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-macros.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-maps.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-maps.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-pkg.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-repeat.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-repeat.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-search.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-search.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-states.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-states.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-test-helpers.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-tests.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-types.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-types.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-vars.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil-vars.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/evil/evil.elc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-evil on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).