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I used Vi, and then Vim, for a good 15y before I switched to Emacs. I made the switch because I had heard that Emacs let you manipulate your buffers with lisp a
by dleslie 6y ago
I used Vi, and then Vim, for a good 15y before I switched to Emacs. I made the switch because I had heard that Emacs let you manipulate your buffers with lisp as one would any other data in a programming language. I find I only really do that when using Org Mode or REST mode, but I'm still glad that I made the switch. The editor is ... mine. Mine in a way that a professional's tool should be an extension of themself.
I've been thinking of trying evil, but I don't really miss the modal editing as much as I thought I would, and it's been another five to ten years.
- reactchain 6y ago> The editor is ... mine One of the things I like most about vim is that you can use it on just about any remote machine, and even if you don't have your own vimrc the default editor is still really powerful.
- dleslie 6y agoTramp mode lets me do that with Emacs, and I get to keep my custom environment.