[qubitcoder]

I typically use Vim for quick edits on my Mac, and especially on remote boxes.

But for Haskell and Clojure development, it's hard to beat the tight integration features that Emacs provides (e.g. quickly piping your code or a single function to the REPL for testing). Vim is not designed for this; there are plugins available to approximate it, but it’s a bit hacky and nowhere close to Emacs).

Honestly, it's not hard to learn the basics of both. If you're accustomed to Vim commands, Emacs has `evil-mode`. There's also the slick `god-mode`, which is like Vim's Normal mode for Emacs.

Both tools are great in their own ways. Personally, I regularly use and love them both.

[reirob]

How about yi (https://github.com/yi-editor/yi)?

I hope some day an editor, written in Haskell, allowing to emulate Vi and and Emacs behaviour will become more appropriate for Haskell programming than any other editor and offer you to either the Vi or Emacs style.