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I’m a Vi user for over 20 years now. Though, I only know the very basic of Vi to edit config files. I have tried several times to use Vi for as a general editor

I’m a Vi user for over 20 years now. Though, I only know the very basic of Vi to edit config files. I have tried several times to use Vi for as a general editor for programming (with plugins) but didn’t feel intuitive with it. I guess the obscured key shortcuts are putting me off. For some reason, I got hooked to emacs after using CiDER for Clojure. I feel like the shortcuts problem in emacs is just a facade as everything is bound to a function! What a revelation it is. I would give prelude a try because it doesn’t try to force push Vi mode in emacs.

alpaca128 6y ago
To be fair inputs in Vim can also be bound to a function call. In large parts it's just a different scripting language. After trying both for a while I'd say Emacs and Vim mainly have more very different approaches to the same goals. I never really loved Emacs but I do appreciate its better scripting language(imho) and more robust syntax highlighting.
- jhoechtl 6y ago
  Wait for Neovim tree-sitter powered syntax highlighting!