[csmattryder]

This looks pretty cool, there seems to be Vim shortcuts [1] and even theming. Judging from your screenshot, Solarized Dark is the default theme?

But I'd have to wait until its release (or beta, should I be so lucky!) to consider moving from standard vim editor and Solarized in my Xresources.

[1] https://github.com/atom/vim-mode

[baby]

I always wonder why I learned emacs over vim. There is never support for it.

[jaredmcateer]

Don't feel bad, there's nothing worse (for editing) than using a half baked version of vim in another editor. The best of implementations will leave you with an uncanny valley feeling of disgust. I'd rather use a non-modal editor, all or nothing.

[DennisP]

Funny, I'm just the opposite. I'd rather have the basics than nothing.

Mostly I've used VsVim and Viemu. They're both pretty decent. (Viemu is better though, it's got everything I normally use except for :norm. VsVim is missing column mode and the vap doesn't work.)

[jaredmcateer]

I've built a suite of useful shortcuts that only work with my vimrc, which isn't a problem since installing my config from my github repo is a 3 step process, but when I'm running in some "vim-mode" editor I find myself tripping up on not having these things that I've committed to muscle memory and it ends up killing my productivity. At least if I know the editor is always in insert mode I can adjust with the occasional :w here.

[DennisP]

I could see that being annoying. VsVim and Viemu both support a vimrc.

[davidw]

Because when you learn elisp, it runs circles around vim.

[admnor]

Yay, the original Holy War!

(vi, for the record)

[masukomi]

I'm pretty sure that vi hasn't been distributed for years. All the vi's in modern distros are just pointers to vim.

[omaranto]

That's probably not true, in that among the myriad distros there's probably one in which vi is nvi.

[markeganfuller]

vi is still included in the arch linux base system

[crashandburn4]

true, but that's why we have evil mode[1], so we can have our elisp cake and eat our delicous sugary vim bindings too.

[1] https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home

[avendael]

You can try this out https://atom.io/packages/atomic-emacs. It's not yet complete, and I'm still working on it, but I think it's a start. Feature requests are welcome :)

[jbeja]

You could always use emacs evil-pluging.

[Flenser]

do you mean https://github.com/tarao/evil-plugins?

[rayiner]

I learned Emacs because there was nothing that supported Common Lisp editing the way Emacs did.

[duaneb]

Unless you use a Mac!

[songgao]

hmm.. so it even has an Atom package manager!