> people recommend me their IDEs or some new text editor from time to time by telling me that the editor supports Emacs style keybindings assuming that is the m

> people recommend me their IDEs or some new text editor from time to time by telling me that the editor supports Emacs style keybindings assuming that is the main difference between editors I get that too but with Vim. People think Vim is just about the controls because all they know about Vim is the :q joke. No, that IDE's Vim plugin doesn't cut it, because unfortunately it comes with an IDE and its distracting overloaded UI, weird tab switching behaviour, absolutely infuriating popups and other annoyances. Vim being just a really flexible and fast editor with a mostly empty status line as the entire user interface is a feature.