[ColonelPhantom]

There's an old UNIX hacker trope of Vim vs Emacs "editor wars", where Vim users complain about RSImacs and Emacs users complain about Vimscript. It's a meme that goes very deep (Church of Emacs anyone?), and I'm sure that the Vim bindings for Emacs being called "evil-mode" was done at least partially on purpose. In Spacemacs, the setup option for which keybindings you want even makes it sound like you're choosing a side in a video game:

- Among the stars aboard the Evil flagship (vim)

- On the planet Emacs in the Holy control tower (emacs)