The editor war is the rivalry between users of the Emacs and vi (now usually Vim, or more recently Neovim) text editors. The rivalry has become an enduring part of hacker culture and the free software community. The Emacs versus vi debate was one of the original "holy wars" conducted on Usenet groups. [1]

Sep 16, 2009 · You can be in vi when in emacs, you can be in vi to build bash commands in unix-land. Even Microsquish has to support vi (although they do a good job of hiding it) because of gov't and corporate compliance with published standards.

Oct 13, 2016 · Some people try to combine the keystrokes of Vim with the functionality of Emacs (see: evil or ‘vim’ mode in Emacs), to try to get the best of both worlds.

Nov 9, 2020 · Vim and Emacs users, once at each other's throats, seem to have implemented each other's keybindings (a thing they actually do) to take on a common enemy — any modern IDE. The consensus among many Vim/Emacs users creates a picture many tech users from a certain generation would be familiar with.

Nov 8, 2023 · Let‘s summarize the key pros and cons of Vim and Emacs: Vim. Pros. Faster text editing via modal design ; More straightforward initial learning curve; Ubiquitous – comes preinstalled on most systems; More plugins and integrations available; Very active community support; Cons. More limited customizability compared to Emacs

Emacs is a class of feature-rich text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. Emacs has over 1,000 editing commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work. Vim is a text editor first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for the Amiga computer.

Jan 2, 2023 · As compared to Vi and Nano, Emacs is the most powerful, faster, and more reliable text editor used in Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems. It is not only the text editor but also has a built-in web browser, calculator, etc. Emacs has tones of features such as:

May 12, 2024 · Vim is lightweight and faster than Emacs. Emac is more customizable than Vim. Both of the editors support a graphical User Interface and command line interface. Different applications between embedded systems, system administration, quick and remote editing, and word processing.

Oct 31, 2021 · Both Vim and Emacs while being text editors have different design philosophies and hence serve two different purposes. Vim was designed to be the most efficient text editor ever.

A lot of Vim users who switch to Emacs use the third-party package Evil mode, a feature rich Vim emulation layer in Emacs. There is also Viper , which is built into Emacs, but it is not as complete in its emulation as Evil, and it only emulates Vi and not Vim.