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by Symbiote
3408 days ago
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"Another editor" presumably means Emacs, but isn't Vi vs Emacs dead? In 2017, the argument is really Vi-or-Emacs vs other editors. In Emacs, deleting four lines is Alt-4 Ctrl-K, usually written M-4 C-K. One way to delete a whole block (meaning a paragraph?) is M-h Backspace. Deletion to the end of the link is C-K. Selecting a region is done with C-Space, running a simple replace is then M-% foo bar ! I'm not an expert with Emacs. The most useful function I use is the macros, which saves me learning many other functions. F3 starts macro recording, F4 ends it, then F4 again runs the macro. It's easy to script changes and run them in this way. |
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Emacs is without a doubt superior technology when compared to vim. There are perfectly usable vi clones that run on Emacs, after all. The main benefit vi has over emacs is that it's everywhere (except windows :() in some form, so even on a completely unfamiliar machine away from your highly developed dotfiles, your muscle memory still works to an extent.
The main reason I don't use an Emacs implementation of vi is that muscle memory is really bothersome to retrain, and the differences are enough to disrupt my workflow rather badly when using eg. Spacemacs. I just haven't found the benefits to be significant enough to outweigh the inconvenience of retraining myself.