There definitely is leader functionality in evil about evil-guide HOT 4 CLOSED

My point was that there isn't an exact equivalent of vim's <leader>. I mention general.el in several places including the leader section. I could maybe also mention prefix maps in that section and give an example that doesn't use any packages if that would make things clearer.

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Sure, if you'd like. Out of curiosity, what functionality is missing?

from evil-guide.

There isn't any functionality missing. The common ways of having named prefixes in emacs are actually more powerful than vim's <leader>, but because there isn't a standard <leader> equivalent (something like evil-leader-map), there aren't emacs packages that will bind keys under your "leader" key. Well.. I am aware of one (evil-org), but the fact that it requires the use of evil-leader was reason enough for one user to create an alternative package (called syndicate).

I don't know if I would call this difference a definite downside though. I occasionally ran into issues where some vim plugin would override one of my personal <leader> keybindings.

I've tried to better clarify what I meant. Let me know if you think I should add anything else.

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Thanks for the balanced insight!

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