Re:Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
by lelanthran on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @03:39PM
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> But Emacs is intrinsically slow as molasses. The nail in the coffin for me was the scrolling performance.
Just to play devils advocate (in reality I'm a die-hard-never-use-anything-else vim user, and have been since 1996-ish), I did once manage to set up vim with so many highlighting and display options that I made my i7 crawl whenever I tried to scroll.
(The main thing that pegged the core to 100% was ':set cul' with ':set number' and various different syntax highlighting for numbers, highlighted numbers, highlighted line, syntax-highlighting within a highlighted-line, etc).
So, yeah, vim can be slow too if you nerdgasm all over the config :-)
Just to play devils advocate (in reality I'm a die-hard-never-use-anything-else vim user, and have been since 1996-ish), I did once manage to set up vim with so many highlighting and display options that I made my i7 crawl whenever I tried to scroll.
(The main thing that pegged the core to 100% was ':set cul' with ':set number' and various different syntax highlighting for numbers, highlighted numbers, highlighted line, syntax-highlighting within a highlighted-line, etc).
So, yeah, vim can be slow too if you nerdgasm all over the config :-)