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Discussion on: Time to End the vi/Emacs Debate

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Ricardo Bánffy

Popularity is not quality. Vim is my favorite configuration file editor. Emacs is my favorite IDE.

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Edwin Torres

Isn't it confusing going back and forth between the vim and Emacs syntax? After all these years, I still have vim commands to learn.

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Jan Van Uytven

Emacs + evil gives you the power of emacs with vim’s Keybinds

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Ben Lovy

Or use Spacemacs, which takes the pain out of configuring it. You can choose evil-mode on first run.