Manual installation ​

First, install goto-chg and cl-lib. If you have an Emacs version of 24.3 or newer, you should already have cl-lib.

Evil lives in a git repository. To download Evil, do:

bash
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil.git

Then add the following lines to your Emacs init file:

emacs-lisp
(add-to-list 'load-path "path/to/evil")
(require 'evil)
(evil-mode 1)

Ensure that your replace path/to/evil with the actual path to where you cloned Evil.