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For me, the big feature in editors is mouseless editing. With emacs my fingers never have to leave the keyboard. When I started out in the Dark Ages, vi offer

by egl2021 5y ago

For me, the big feature in editors is mouseless editing. With emacs my fingers never have to leave the keyboard. When I started out in the Dark Ages, vi offered the same benefit, but multiple buffers were easier in emacs, so I ended up with emacs. I use some emacs extensions (e.g. ctags recently), but that's a secondary benefit. So from my perspective, you've already gotten most of the benefit just with vi. YMMV. If emacs were to disappear today, I'd probably switch to vi and be perfectly happy.

etra0 5y ago
Vim still has some short comings when it comes to developing, since at the end of the day, is a text-editing tools. I usually use tmux + vim over SSH and it's very comfy, maybe Emacs can do all of that in Emacs itself. I hope I can gather enough energy some day to give it a try. I'm really not into fighting for which ecosystem is better, I just want to enjoy editing code, and so far vim is making it fun, but exploration can be fun too :D