No reason to be rude, I have used VIM for 15 years, I know how it works. Yes you can pipe stuff in and out, you can do in Emacs as well. My point being that V

No reason to be rude, I have used VIM for 15 years, I know how it works. Yes you can pipe stuff in and out, you can do in Emacs as well. My point being that VIM isn't better than Emacs on this aspect, and they're not like other shell tools where COMMON usage is by piping stuff in and out; they're not like cat, more, wc. They live in their own space.