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No. Vim is a text editor. Emacs is a lisp interpreter whose dialect of lisp is specialized for text manipulation. In emacs the user interface is incidental to
by thrown_22 4y ago
No.
Vim is a text editor.
Emacs is a lisp interpreter whose dialect of lisp is specialized for text manipulation. In emacs the user interface is incidental to the main goal of programmatic text manipulation.
In vim the user interface is the be all and end all. Which is why vim is now a specialized emacs mode when you need character based text manipulation.
- ngcc_hk 4y agoVim has its own script and vim can have its lisp mode. emacs never got it too many 3 keys ops. Vi (I started from ICL … is always I can associate with. Hence different poison. Btw If you try to learn emacs in iphone or ipad, iSH and a-shell both give you an escape key and control-key. Hence no emacs default key mode. Guess I can try boon or evil. But you know just 3 keys or basically 4 is not that user-friendly for newbie.
- thrown_22 4y agoJust buy a keyboard ffs.
- partomniscient 4y ago>Btw If you try to learn emacs in iphone or ipad... ...you're going to have a bad time. Emacs is not the hammer that wants to hit a touchscreen interface nail.