Grab Doom Emacs, it has evil-mode very well integrated and the space bar leader key setup should come natural.

I’ve used Emacs for a while now (since '89 or so) but had to learn vi really well as I spent most of the ‘90s on all sorts of Unix machines that invariably had vi (or ex, and ed, of course) and never Emacs, so I got to appreciate the friendliness of the modal model of interaction over Emacs’ use of lots-of-modifier-keys. I think it’s more ergonomic, even though it’s not always perfect at times, so I use a mixture.

Oh, and swap Ctrl and Caps Lock. That Caps Lock key has no business sitting where it sits on the PC keyboard, that’s what you get when a typewriter factory starts building computers. Thanks, IBM. For Emacs especially I feel it makes the modifier combinations a bit easier on the left hand.

It’s just much easier to stop using them. Remember: its founder and largest shareholder (I guess) was one of the billionaire groupies standing behind Trumd during his inauguration. Canadians should not be shopping on Amazon.