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I've never seen the need to use anything other than vim.

• busterarm 7y ago
  I used to say that for 20 years but more and more I've found it wanting and in the last week have been giving Spacemacs a go. I'm sure it's not what I'll end on (very likely to try doom or vanilla emacs), but emacs + vim keybindings is the best of both worlds.
• alpaca128 7y ago
  Same here. I've tried getting into Emacs for a couple days but gave up. It would mean a lot of effort just to achieve a similar proficiency, for little gain(better syntax highlighting, a few small features). I think the deeper you're already in one of the ecosystems the harder it becomes to switch and the returns diminish further. In my case I'm very comfortable with Vim combined with a tiling window manager and terminal buffers, and I can't stand Emacs' control scheme. So at this point it's simply not worth it.
  • spudlyo 7y ago
    Emacs has recently been seeing a lot of growth from vim users who are migrating to emacs "distros" (like spacemacs and doom) that are pre-configured with emacs' vim-emulation. I found this video[0] a pretty interesting perspective from a die-hard vim user who switched. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc
    • alpaca128 7y ago
      I've tried those already. Evil, Spacemacs, Doom. All except Doom have a misbehaving Escape key, Spacemacs needs as long to start up as one of the Electron-based editors. In the end it comes down to this: I don't need Emacs. I've tried to find a feature that I really want and that's worth it to switch for(yes, I also tried org mode). But I'm comfortable with my Vim setup, I don't need an email client or web browser in the text editor.