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Re:A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming by jcoffland on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @02:54PM (#13592155)
Actually, the author claimed to be more familiar with vi or rather that they were using vi much more yet decided to go with emacs. Pretty much the opposite of what you are saying.
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Re:A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming by erikpukinskis on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:01PM (#13592205)
No in the realm of plugins, which was the subject of the article, it's exactly how OP says: they know the Emacs plugin landscape and not the Vim one. For the relevant passage search "I'm not that person".
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Re:A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming by jcoffland on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:31PM (#13595458)
From the first paragraph of the article:

"The reality is that I already spend most of my editing time in vim"

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Re:A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming by dozzie on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:42PM (#13592574)
I read his blog regularly, and my impression is that cks actually feels more familiar with Emacs, though he uses vi-descendants a little more due to how easy is to deploy Emacs plus all the configuration in all the OSes he runs (times the servers he runs, as they don't have much of a configuration management system).
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