[n-gate]

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too

Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on this?

2:52 UTC 9-7 vim-emacs

[hollerith]

>makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs.

Your poll has more selection bias than the SO survey: your poll was seen only by HNers who decided to read comments on a story with "Emacs" in the title.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Correct, but given the lingering sense of the two editors being polar opposites, left behind from centuries-past flame wars of the internets, both vim and emacs users are likely to come forward, just to see what the fuss is about.

[rauhl]

Emacs. Vi is awesome — it really is — and vim is neat too, but I prefer an entire operating environment. And Lisp. And man-centuries (man-millennia?) of usability improvements.

[em-bee]

for the operating environment i prefer smalltalk. if only it (pharo/squeak) had a better editor.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Vim.

Vim's command-line is more alien to the last 4 or 5 gui-bred younger generations of programmers. Learning to master it is therefore more of a badge of hounour, and for that, more sought-after, than learning to master Emacs.

Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x

[u801e]

> Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language

Vim does have a scheme language binding such that vimscript can call an embedded script written in scheme, and that scheme script can interface with vim. This is also the case for other languages like perl, python, ruby, tcl, and several other languages.

[rauhl]

> Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x

Spacemacs sounds like it’d fit your needs to a T. Or doom-emacs.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Those are Emacs configs and I do prefer vim, just with a different scripting language - but, thanks :)

[_emacsomancer_]

Look into Evil.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

That sounds like a good idea, in general- thank you.

[ai_ia]

Emacs because of Org Mode.

[pweissbrod]

Vim also supports org mode as well. Not quite as nice as emacs but it gets the job done for me

[vvillena]

Syntax highlighting and basic outline support is not orgmode. Orgmode is an agenda, a smart task scheduler, a spaced repetition learning system, a publishing environment, a literate code tool, a knowledge base...

[noobly]

Vim is a text editor, emacs is more like an IDE for your OS that works best when lived in. So they aren’t exactly directly comparable.

But, +1 for emacs.

[stevekemp]

Indeed I use emacs for all "real" editing, but I use vim for composing emails - in my own console-based mail-client.

[n-gate]

Does your DNS hosting solution allows for routing to least latency geographically closest host?

[stevekemp]

No.

It just lets you setup "standard" record-types, such as A, AAAA, MX, etc.

[em-bee]

vim (that brings the tally up to 15 for emacs, and 10 for vim)

[nabla9]

Emacs

(Vi is the God of editors, but Emacs is the editor of Gods.)

[_emacsomancer_]

Take a guess.

[meatcar]

Evil, best of both worlds :)

[village-idiot]

Emacs.

[throwaway413]

Vim, preferably Neovim.

[sooheon]

Emacs + modal editing

[ngcc_hk]

Vi - always there

[teddyh]

Emacs.

[grdvnl]

Emacs

[sulami]

Emacs

[RBerenguel]

Emacs

[earenndil]

Vim.

[shrimpx]

emacs -nw

[nradk]

Vim!

[ashton314]

emacs

[smnplk]

O26 editor

[paco3346]

nano

:P

[_emacsomancer_]

Nano just exists to fool my fingers with its quarter implementation of Emacs bindings, and I end up deleting half of the file's contents.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> I end up deleting half of the file's contents.

Are you sure you're not using vim?

[_emacsomancer_]

Nah, vim's modal. True, one of those modes is 'break everything', but the other mode is 'beeping furiously', so I generally notice I'm not in emacs pretty quickly.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Beeping is a feature. The user must be made aware that they are typing in vim, lest they start pressing random key combinations, like C-x, C-m etc.

It is well known that users may press these keys by mistake, while falling asleep on their keyboard. Therefore, vim beeps to keep them awake and avoid trouble.

[ZayleePyrex]

https://xkcd.com/378/

vim all day

[na85]

emacs

[ryanolsonx]

vim

[n-gate]

Emacs

[n-gate]

Vim