Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs?

Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs? by rlpb on Monday July 18, 2022 @02:49PM (#32141920)

Overtaken how? Download size? Startup time? Ubiquitous availability? Number of kernel hackers who use it as their daily driver? What's your metric?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs? by worthless-trash on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:13AM (#32147451)

Memory usage and CPU time ! Heyooo!

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Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs? by jhbadger on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:30AM (#32152060)

I remember when Emacs was viewed as requiring a lot of resources (in the early 1990s) and I remember the sysadmin of our shared UNIX system scolding us if we had more than one emacs process running (as opposed to opening multiple files in different buffers).

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Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs? by groovy2shoes on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @02:29PM (#32170141)

The old joke was that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. Of course, eight megs is nothing these days.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs? by wruza on Monday July 18, 2022 @03:07PM (#32142184)

Not a fan of vscode (or emacs, which it “has overtaken”, not vim), but I think it fits OP’s first paragraph.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs? by darthrupert on Monday July 18, 2022 @03:21PM (#32142335)

Popularity, features, quality. I still use Emacs myself but I'm not fucking blind.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs? by jshzglr on Monday July 18, 2022 @03:06PM (#32142163)

Relax and open your eyes.

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