Vim vs Emacs Debate

After years of VIM, I've decided to learn Emacs and have been doing all my coding and other stuff in it. There's not as much people and newer stuff like VSCode, but the whole ecosystem is pretty great and it's very extensible and customizable. Major and minor modes made is a good model to group functionalities together. Stuff like Compilation Mode, Tramps, Eglot, and how easy it is to add new features to the editor make it a joy to use.

Just Use Emacs. You have no idea what you are missing.

Vim user for 12 years, Emacs user for 5. I prefer and mainly use Emacs after I finally "got it". My previous attempts at learning Emacs weren't as successful because I was too biased about what a good editor should be like because of my familiarity with vim - mainly I was annoyed about silly things like having to press 4 keypresses for tasks that would take two keypresses in vim. So, if you decide to give Emacs a try, keep your preconceptions away and accept that it will take mont

Can someone give me a reason to try emacs and leave my trusty vim?

Former VIm user... Current Emacs user.IMHO, Evil Mode makes to use emacs doable OTOH, the fact that there are so much extensions and possibilities under the hood makes to use emacs mandatory! :P

I recently (about 6 months ago, I think) switched from Vim to Emacs + Evil (a really good Vim emulator) and the switch can only be described as awesome:I feel (and this may be just me) that Lisp in Emacs is easier to learn, better integrated, and offers more flexibility than VimScript in Vim. Thus, while my whole of custom VimScript over 5 years of usage can be reduced to around 20 lines in my vimrc, I've already written several small scripts, plugins, and more in emacs lisp since I star

I am using Vim. Is it worth it to try emacs?

I've been on vim for 8+ years. About 2 years ago I set up emacs because I wanted to start working in lisp land and use org mode. I couldn't use emacs without vim keybinds so I installed evil. I still use both editors, but I find emacs much easier to customize and the 'operating system' part of emacs makes it much easier to manage all the things I need to do. It sucks for big files, and there are some annoying quirks where repeating actions don't quite match vim's be

I used Vim for 15 years, then switched to Emacs+Evil. Vim is the best interface, Emacs the best platform. Emacs+Evil combines both.

Someone has taught Emacs how to converse in the language of vim: http://gitorious.org/evil/pages/HomeBelieve it or not, Emacs is quite a fluent speaker. I was surprised to find that even esoteric things like rectangle selections work perfectly and :%s incrementally showing the results of your search and replace as you type is a hoot.Sure, emacs has its own accent and quirks, but after using emacs+evil as my only text editor