It doesn't have to be an either/or for the comparison to be meaningful. As to the specicifity to Bash, I could have substituted 'shell' or Unix environment just

It doesn't have to be an either/or for the comparison to be meaningful. As to the specicifity to Bash, I could have substituted 'shell' or Unix environment just the same and meant the same question, that is, the advantages of working within Emacs or Vim, versus do the same operations directly from the command prompt.