A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming

Re:A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming by zeveb on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @02:44PM (#13592048)

> vim must be better as its workflow is more efficient for that (thanks to the 2 modes and speed that object motion combinations give)

Emacs provides object motion commands, too, based on b/f/p/n. It can have two modes (in the vi sense), if you wish, using evil-mode.

It's also far, far better than vi at editing and navigating the text of a news post, or a newsgroup, or an email, or a web page, or a process listing, or a kubernetes definition, or or or.

Emacs can completely emulate vim; vim cannot emulate emacs. Seems to me emacs is more powerful.

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Re:A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming by majkinetor on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:02PM (#13592215)

Emacs can completely emulate vim; vim cannot emulate emacs

That is probably not true. The main reason is more probably that nobody wants to emulate emacs in vim. Its more telling IMO that emacs people want vim in it. As user slurry above pointed out, its probably because old habits die hard and because people continue doing the same stuff to justify time investment.

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