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Interesting, the random down-votes. Did y'all really down-vote because you hate vim? I didn't say I hated emacs, I didn't even imply that emacs was bad in any w

• brudgers 11y ago
  Some readers may have downvoted the comment in the belief that it was potentially detrimental to fostering meaningful discussion. Even a kind reading would classify it is as random noise. Nobody is going to read it and come away smarter or better informed. They may however come away inflamed. Because the strength of VIM's design stems from Unix's do-one-thing-well principle, on naive reading The comment is a technical non-starter. Finally, on HN, a VIM versus EMACS comment stands a reasonable chance of having been read by people who fought in the editor wars. That's one of the amazing things about this community. I've been downvoted for similar comments. My advice is to write better comments - complaints about downvotes aren't better - even though it's hard work. Good luck.