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> People choose vi because of modal editing, not because they are ignorant of the Emacs feature set. Exactly this. I had used Emacs for many, many years and f
by saidajigumi 11y ago
> People choose vi because of modal editing, not because they are ignorant of the Emacs feature set.
Exactly this. I had used Emacs for many, many years and finally decided to give Vim a go... and never looked back. Emacs is very powerful, and while the Elisp infrastructure has distinct advantages over Vimscript, the compositional richness of Vim's editing model is amazing. I don't have to drop to scripting because Vim gives me the power I need more quickly and easily.
- DannoHung 11y agoSo, that said, have you tried out spacemacs? It's really, really good. It's not a zero cost switch, but I really think it makes the good things about vim work in emacs.
- Dewie3 11y agoCurious that you chose to switch editor outright rather than just install some more modal package, after all those years. I chouse the former as the path of least resistance.
- saidajigumi 11y agoThat choice was actually motivated for other reasons rather than just the modal workflow. The biggest of which was that (at the time) I found I had to really struggle to get Emacs and its ecosystem to play nicely with a highly project-centric workflow. I had used old vi regularly starting decades ago, and thus had basic usage burned in. E.g. I never understood these seemingly lame "minimal system editors" that some distros use vs. the old sysadmin standard of a minimal vi implementation (vs. full vim, emacs, etc.) But it was becoming clear that something else was going on with modern vim, so after testing the waters a bit for my needs, I decided to go all-in as much as an ecosystem research project as anything else.