The big feature Emacs provides that Vim doesn't in this case is integration with the window manager. Emacs lets me create another X window that shares the same

The big feature Emacs provides that Vim doesn't in this case is integration with the window manager. Emacs lets me create another X window that shares the same set of buffers, clipboards, and other state with another. This is advantageous because it works like everything else and is especially useful with a tiling window manager.