emacs Why not just use emacs everywhere? I suppose if you use spacemacs (which has vim keybindings) then you might want to 'set -o vi' on the command line. E

emacs Why not just use emacs everywhere? I suppose if you use spacemacs (which has vim keybindings) then you might want to 'set -o vi' on the command line. Emacs has Org-mode & Magit, each of which should be reason enough to switch. Then there're notmuch, gnus, slack-mode, eww … Seriously, emacs really is a more powerful environment[0]. Modern vim tries to be as flexible as emacs, but the language isn't as nice. E.g. Damian Conway's[1] simple example: function! ToggleSyntax() if exists("g:syntax_on") syntax off else syntax enable endif endfunction nmap <silent> ;s :call ToggleSyntax()<CR> would be: (defun toggle-syntax () (syntax (not syntax)) (global-set-key (kbd "M-C-s") toggle-syntax) in a hypothetical elisp for a vim-like editor[2]. In his article he refers to vimscript a more humane than elisp, but I think this simple example shows he's wrong. His next example is a command to capitalise a line, centre it, then move down: function! CapitalizeCenterAndMoveDown() s/\<./\u&/g "Built-in substitution capitalizes each word center "Built-in center command centers entire line +1 "Built-in relative motion (+1 line down) endfunction nmap <silent> \C :call CapitalizeCenterAndMoveDown()<CR> I think this is a lot clearer: (defun capitalize-centre-and-move-down () (interactive) (upcase-region (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)) (center-region (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)) (forward-line)) [0] https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs [1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-vim-script-1/in... [2] For the real emacs, it's just font-lock-mode.