> And then there are the floaters, the passers-by. They judge Emacs solely by its features. > But that's not how a power users judges it. Instead, the power use

> And then there are the floaters, the passers-by. They judge Emacs solely by its features. > But that's not how a power users judges it. Instead, the power user judges a piece of software by what power it provides and what he could do with that power to help himself. In that case I'm not a power user. I tried using emacs for a good amount of time, probably about a year of wall time has been spent with me using emacs as my primary editor. I installed a few packages, and never tried to script anything myself. My issues with emacs were not easily scriptable. Although all-in-all, I didn't find emacs particularly lacking in features compared to vim, which is my preferred editor. In the end I stuck with vim because it's slightly less clunky in my very subjective experience, and I am faster with it. And it is visibly slow, even if you set up an emacs server ("what is a text editor 'server'?" I can hear vim and nano users muttering). Rather than just s**ing on emacs I want to present the things that I did like about it, compared to vim: - The ability to quickly cycle through recently yanked/cut things. It's possible to do this on vim, but nowhere near as easily as M-y. - Keyboard commands are universal and not modal, so I don't need to learn two totally different sets of commands for simple movement and editing. - Keyboard commands are also available in many prompt-based tools like bash, gdb, and many REPLs. Don't tell me about vi-mode in bash unless you actually use it and like it.