[crashandburn4]

I feel like I need to make the obligitory comment. If you want an editor that is scriptable with Lisp and supports Textmate bundles, and Vim keybindings; Emacs[0] + Evil mode[1] (Extensible Vi layer, it's great) + Yasnippet[2] (Yet annother snippet library, has textmate bundles).

I switched from vim to this setup a while ago and have to say I've been very happy with it. I like the advantage of having a full language to use and find the environment more customisable (maybe just because I never got fully comfortable with VimScript. That being said, I still use vim for quickly editing single files as you can't beat the startup time.

[0] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

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

[2] https://github.com/capitaomorte/yasnippet

[wging]

"That being said, I still use vim for quickly editing single files as you can't beat the startup time."

Add (server-start) to your .emacs and keep a running emacs around long-term. Then you can edit single files quickly with emacsclient -t.

[crashandburn4]

Yeah, good point, I actually have:

  alias e='TERM=xterm-256color emacsclient -t'
  alias ec='emacsclient -c'
  alias ed='emacs --daemon'

in my .zshrc to do just that but for some reason I use vim anyway, due to it's omnipresence on every server box I go into and I suppose muscle memory of typing vim whatever_file_i_want_to_edit .

[kirushik]

And even alias 'emacsclient -t' to 'vim' in shell, to keep one's existing habits of CLI editing.