> Vim might be hard, but [...] it makes much more sense than Emacs. Counter-point: I think emacs makes much more sense. If you start it, you can navigate a fi

> Vim might be hard, but [...] it makes much more sense than Emacs. Counter-point: I think emacs makes much more sense. If you start it, you can navigate a file by clicking in places. It is a GUI application, whereas I think vim is just a terminal program by default? Emacs has a little built in tutorial (Ctrl+h t) and is quite discoverable (type Ctrl+h ? and it shows you a lot of commands you can use to find out about what functions a chord invokes or how to invoke a function with a key cord). With helm you just type a part of a function and it gives you a list of suggestions. Within programming languages I think auto-completion is a must-have for discoverability. Otherwise I have to constantly look up stuff in the documentation. And for that company-mode is really nice, I don't know about the vim side of it but I think something like that goes against the philosophy of vim as I understand it? To me, modal editing didn't make much sense in the beginning and for emacs the learning curve seemed less steep, so that's what I went with in the end. But clearly it must be good somehow, because so many people use and love vim! It's just not for me I guess.