emacsconf 2019: evil-mode disappointment

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@@ -107,8 +107,12 @@ people presenting it within Emacs and others using exported PDFs.
 
 Just like the Quake-inspired terminals Guake and Yakuake, there's one called
 [Equake](https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake) that launches a drop-down eshell.
-You can also use the racket shell called Rash, which is crazy powerful. This has
-very good integration with StumpWM.
+You can also use the Racket shell called Rash, which is crazy powerful. Equake has
+good integration with StumpWM.
+
+I was aware of the existence of Yasnippet, but never really used it much. I am
+more motivated to use this important productivity tool after watching the talk
+"Don’t wait! Write your own (yas)snippet" by Tony Aldon.
 
 ### Accessibility
 
@@ -145,6 +149,14 @@ The conference had an excellent live-coding demonstration of LSP by Torstein
 Krause Johansen in his presentation titled "How Emacs became my awesome Java
 editing environment".
 
+### Evil mode
+
+I was kinda disappointed that only one user used EViL mode. I expected that
+there were at least one talk on Evil mode itself. There was one talk by Zaiste
+about Doom Emacs but the title was too click-baity and showed no code. Maybe I
+should do a talk focussed on evil-mode in the next EmacsConf.
+
+
 ## Diversity
 
 The conference seemed to have a good racial mix of speakers. There was a blind