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What I really like about emacs is extensibility in Lisp. I used vim until I wanted to be able to hack my editor. I have absolutely no desire to learn vimscript,

What I really like about emacs is extensibility in Lisp. I used vim until I wanted to be able to hack my editor. I have absolutely no desire to learn vimscript, a language useful solely for hacking vim. Lisp, on the other hand, is actually a real language.

andyn 18y ago
You can script Vim in python.
- bdotdub 18y ago
  Any links or resources for this? I would much rather do that than using vimscript!
  - swaroop 18y ago
    Please see http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim_en:Scripting#Using_external_programming_languages http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim_en:Scripting#Using_extern...