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How? Is there something fundamentally incompatible between Emacs and Vim commands that makes emulation slightly off?
by HelloNurse 8y ago
How? Is there something fundamentally incompatible between Emacs and Vim commands that makes emulation slightly off?
- alpaca128 8y agoIt's mainly different enough so that an experienced Vim user is forced to relearn keybindings and habits while also searching for plugins able to replace the ones in Vim. Also Emacs cannot be 100% Vim compatible because their control schemes are so different, example: The cursed Esc key which doesn't work properly even in Spacemacs. There's a huge difference between Emacs with some Vim commands and Vim with Emacs functionality. So, I'm staying with Vim and if others prefer Emacs that's fine too.
- chongli 8y agoOne example is the } motion (and its corresponding backward version) which in evil mode makes use of Emacs forward-paragraph function. This function is customized by a lot of major modes such that the behaviour is highly file-specific. I much prefer Vim's predictable motions which are the same for every file.