TL;DR: We implement some configuration to recover functionality possible in evil-tex in the meow modal editing scheme. This article assumes some familiarity with the evil and meow modes. evil-tex Doing Our Own Thing Edge Cases Closing Thoughts Having ditched evil-collection to get familiar with the vanilla emacs keybindings, I surprisingly found myself satisfied with many of the facilities emacs provides out-of-the-box for editing text. Alas, I feel modal editing is something I prefer, so I’ve adopted meow.