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That's where these comparisons always fall down: you're trying to do something in X number of keystrokes in vim, whereas in Emacs you'd write your own function
by girzel 11y ago
That's where these comparisons always fall down: you're trying to do something in X number of keystrokes in vim, whereas in Emacs you'd write your own function to do whatever it is. How do you compare those?
Coincidentally (or not), re: the challenge in the above post, I wrote a command that solves exactly this problem: yank-interleaved. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KillingAndYanking#toc3 https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KillingAndYanking#toc3
How many keystrokes does it take to install and use that function?
- omaranto 11y agoI don't think you give Emacs enough credit: sure you can write an Elisp function to do exactly what you need, but you can also usually do it in a few keystrokes using built in commands. Try VimGolf in Emacs sometime, my experience is that it's usually not too hard to get keystroke counts close to those of the vimmers.