For the average computer user, vi and Vim, Emacs and mode-based editors are something that they will likely never come across in their daily, Windows and MacOS-based experience.

That entry may need to be updated soon as Vim 8.0 was announced last Monday followed by Emacs 25.1 just five days later. The timing is remarkable because, while Emacs has been updated regularly, the ...

Comparison of Vim and Emacs. Vim is a sprinter—fast, efficient, and lean, while Emacs is a decathlete, versatile and comprehensive. Vim's learning curve is steep, but its efficiency is unparalleled ...

Why does Emacs have a Vi-emulation mode, but Vim doesn’t have an Emacs emulation mode? Think about that for a while, and you’ll realize that the editor wars have been won. Getting used to Vim ...

It's the only vim emulation I've used that covers my entire set of vim keybindings. My emacs knowledge is: `C-g` cancels prompts, `C-x 1` gets rid of all the other buffer windows, `C-h a` lets you ...

Today, most of us use graphical text editors, but many developers still use vi, or its modern clone Vim, or Emacs, and they're as passionate about their choice of editors as ever. I'm not sure why ...

Like Emacs and Vim, Atom is open source and can be extended to fit specific programming languages. Unlike Emacs, it does not require knowledge of the relatively obscure LISP programming language ...