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This is from 2015, but emacs still has higher typing latency than vim in 2024. https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-
by musicale 2y ago
This is from 2015, but emacs still has higher typing latency than vim in 2024.
https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
If you have better numbers and comparisons for emacs keypress-to-pixel latency, etc. I'd be interested.
Note classic vi started up faster than vim.
Device makes little to no difference: Raspberry Pi 5, MacBook Pro M1, ThinkPad P1, etc. - emacs is clunky on all of them. I like emacs and it's my daily driver. But it isn't fast.
see also:
"Computer latency: 1997-2017"
https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://danluu.com/input-lag/
"Measuring keyboard-to-photon latency with a light sensor"
https://thume.ca/2020/05/20/making-a-latency-tester/ https://thume.ca/2020/05/20/making-a-latency-tester/
- znpy 2y agoI have often see some fellow coworkers start up their fairly complex vim/neovim/other-vim setups and quite frankly… they ended up recreating a poor emacs implementation. Yeah it’s faster at starting up but it’s worse in pretty much everything else. Oh and they end up typing Ctrl-this Ctrl-that anyway. Might as well use gnu emacs.