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Emacs is in many ways a better vim than vim. I moved from vim to emacs+evil and never looked back.


To be fair, it really depends how you use them. Vim has a better TUI while Emacs has a better GUI. Vim is generally easier to configure while Emacs is easier to extend. Vim has more packages that extend the modal editing itself (e.g. extra text objects), while Emacs has more packages that do everything else. Etc…




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