[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