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EDIT: original title was "why would someone prefer emacs over vim?", but i've changed it to have a broader conversation about text editors.
This is not supposed to be a stupid "which one is better" question, i'm just curious about this since from a programmer's perspective, you should probably just stick to one and stay there. Vim is the most popular: in computing, this is a reason by itself, since there's always a compatibility question in terms of businesses, jobs, operating systems, etc. However, emacs seems to be fantastic if you know LISP, which is a huge subject matter that doesn't seem to have as many applications as the other programming languages do...
I've been learning emacs since it's challenging and continues to be fun, google and intuition tells me that Vim is more popular and difficult. Why do emacs users stay with emacs? And since this is not supposed to be a promotional or "win" post...why do vim users stay with Vim? I'm just a little confused since there are just so many things to learn about in terms of computers and programming. I've got a lot of web programming stuff ahead of me i want to keep exploring before learning the more exciting linux-specific stuff (command line, C, shell scripts, all 3 which i already have some understanding of from the past couple years...)...speak your mind or not at all! Thanks.
This is not supposed to be a stupid "which one is better" question, i'm just curious about this since from a programmer's perspective, you should probably just stick to one and stay there. Vim is the most popular: in computing, this is a reason by itself, since there's always a compatibility question in terms of businesses, jobs, operating systems, etc. However, emacs seems to be fantastic if you know LISP, which is a huge subject matter that doesn't seem to have as many applications as the other programming languages do...
I've been learning emacs since it's challenging and continues to be fun, google and intuition tells me that Vim is more popular and difficult. Why do emacs users stay with emacs? And since this is not supposed to be a promotional or "win" post...why do vim users stay with Vim? I'm just a little confused since there are just so many things to learn about in terms of computers and programming. I've got a lot of web programming stuff ahead of me i want to keep exploring before learning the more exciting linux-specific stuff (command line, C, shell scripts, all 3 which i already have some understanding of from the past couple years...)...speak your mind or not at all! Thanks.
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