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by cup-of-tea 2881 days ago
Stupid poll. Due to the limited options, people who use neither editor seriously have voted vim simply because they know about it. Also it can't be denied that vim is the hipster editor, used by the same kind of people that use reddit. People that use emacs, like me, do not vote in polls on reddit.
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pyrale 2881 days ago
Dude, your comments come across as categorizing and slightly judgemental.

It's fine to use vim, and it's fine to use emacs. No need to get upset over a piece of technology.

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cup-of-tea 2881 days ago
I meant to say vim is the "hip" thing, as in, it's in fashion with a certain type of programmer for some reason. Fashion definitely exists in our world, even though it's hard to admit. In my (purely anecdotal) experience, vim gets a lot more lip service than actual use.
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erikbye 2880 days ago
I use Emacs and this is completely anecdotal, but I agree, it feels like vim is the hip editor. I think it started to become hip when Rails gained traction. A lot of screencasts using vim. I guess this was when TM had fallen out of favor or something.

A lot of Elixir devs use vim, as well, and many came from Ruby/Rails.

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nightfly 2881 days ago
> Also it can't be denied that vim is the hipster editor, used by the same kind of people that use reddit.

I'll deny it. I doubt there is any kernel of truth to that sentence at all.

~ Emacs user who frequents Reddit

(though not the tech subreddits because I get enough of that stuff here)

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flukus 2881 days ago
> Also it can't be denied that vim is the hipster editor, used by the same kind of people that use reddit

/r/vim subscribers: 54,406

/r/emacs subscribers: 22,701

If anything it seems like emacs users are over represented on reddit :)

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cup-of-tea 2881 days ago
Or maybe vim is massively over represented in those other polls. Lots of people claim to use it. Few customise and really live with it and thus are not likely to subscribe to a subreddit about it. I know "vim users" that actually use pycharm with vim keybindings if you actually watch them. If that's OK then everyone who uses default readline bindings is an emacs user.
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