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I've got the same problem with both Atom and LightTable. They have potential; they are just 30-years too young for me. Emacs has much more commands for simple text manipulation than any other editor (ofc, excluding Vim). No editor that I know of implements all the Emacs commands for even simple things. For example for marking and navigation in a text (mark-, backward-, forward-). Indentation and newline behavior, searching and replacing in a file (search- and replace-*; also occur-mode). And more. I'm sure all editors will, sooner or later, get most or all of those, but using them right now would be inconvenient. I don't want to have to record macros to deal with such simple things! And then of course is a matter of Emacs plugin ecosystem. It is enormous and includes some neat stuff, like Magit, Org, Helm, Undo-Tree, multiple cursors, Paredit, Minimap, Speedbar and so on. Some of those are "outside of scope" of the new editors, but some would be very welcome in them. I suspect that they will appear in time, but right now I wouldn't have access to them at all if I used some other, new editor. (By the way, in my experience as both Emacs and Vim user, these two are interchangeable in terms of available plugins. Emacs seems to have a little more of them, probably because Elisp sucks a little bit less than VimL) |