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vim vs emacs thing is extremely outdated imho. There is evil-mode (Emacs VIm Layer) in emacs which is an emulator of vim. You can have vim, or emacs, or both, o
by gnulinux 6y ago
vim vs emacs thing is extremely outdated imho. There is evil-mode (Emacs VIm Layer) in emacs which is an emulator of vim. You can have vim, or emacs, or both, or none, all being equally viable. In fact, there is Spacemacs which is an emacs distro that is built around evil-mode and comes with a whole bunch of packages out-of-the-box.
https://www.spacemacs.org/ https://www.spacemacs.org/
This is not to preach of emacs or vim, really. I'm just saying vim and emacs are by no means mutually exclusive. I personally never got used to vim stuff, so I use Spacemacs with emacs keybindings, and my custom elisp scripts. Emacs really is more of a programming environment/mini operating system than an editor. Enjoy!
- nextos 6y agoI couldn't agree more. Emacs is a text-mode Lisp VM, whereas Vi is a modal editing UI. They are in different categories. Emacs has a great Vi implementation, Spacemacs. Neovim is also a good Vi implementation. Vim, I think, is a bit outdated. For example, VimL scripting is full of quirks.