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by bananamerica 2180 days ago
Vim and Emacs are not in the same category. Direct comparisons are silly and useless, like comparing Pycharm and Notepad++.
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Nothing’s in the same category when you look deep enough into them.
This says nothing about the matter at hand. The concept of category is useful, regardless of its impreciseness. And some categorizations are better than others.

> Nothing’s in the same category when you look deep enough into them.

That’s also patently false: many things belong to the same category. Everything that exists belongs to the existent category, for example.