[pdar4123]

Honestly ppl: vim or emacs - the rest is fluff

[kirubakaran]

Or both, with Spacemacs. I'm all in on Emacs though.

[crimsonalucard]

I had a coworker who couldn't understand why people didn't just use emacs.

I figured he was just cocky or he just didn't understand people in general.

The huge downside of emacs is it's Huge learning curve. The rest is not fluff because the rest roughly have zero curve.

[samatman]

Vim... does not have a zero learning curve.

For me, the huge downside of emacs is the not-very-fast single-threaded virtual machine with dynamic scope and one huge global namespace. It does an incredible number of cool things, some of them you can't find anywhere else, but I always end up bailing for an editor where I can reliably type and have characters show up instantly.

[crimsonalucard]

Slight error, yes vim has a learning curve.

[DonHopkins]

Vim also has modes.

But I guess you've never heard of Larry Tesler or Jeff Raskin, either.

[crimsonalucard]

I actually (honestly) haven't heard of them. Are they your programming idols? Are they beyond reproach? Do you worship them and snark at anyone who criticizes there ideas?

[DonHopkins]

Obviously you've also never heard of google.

[DonHopkins]

Vim has a very short learning curve, because the only command you need to learn is ":q!".

[SanchoPanda]

Sublime is fluff?