> I recently tried to seriously use Emacs over my usual Vim. For the fellow Vimmer, I suggest Doom Emacs. I'm using it to type this message now! Yes, it's a di

> I recently tried to seriously use Emacs over my usual Vim. For the fellow Vimmer, I suggest Doom Emacs. I'm using it to type this message now! Yes, it's a distribution with many batteries included, but you can eliminate what you don't need. It's quite flexible, and the dev is very responsive. I recently dropped Vim and going with vanilla Emacs. I reconfigured my current Emacs/evil-mode config and took out everything evil related. For the next few days I painstakingly worked through the keys. By the end of the week, I had enough. I felt too slow and my hands started aching ironically. My current Linux environment relies on me to easily switch between windows with HJKL and other shortcuts I've instituted over the years. Also, I work on two different keyboards. Both work fine with evil-mode, but one required some serious rebinding just to use vanilla Emacs. I returned to evil mode and feel right at home. I did take some things with me, such as C-a/e for moving to the beginning and end of a line and C-d and C-k for deleting characters and lines, respectively. I'd love to hear from Vim and Emacs users on why they preferred Emacs' bindings over Vim's, if that ever happened.