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Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.
"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."
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A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:56PM (5 children)
There's a certain religiosity in the Emacs community, promulgated no doubt by Stallman and his FSF.
While that religiosity engenders a useful theoretical zeal that is enticing, I find that the Vim community's rough-and-tumble pragmatism are better for getting shit done.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:16PM (1 child)
And when you're done doing shit, you can always use Emacs to get some work done.
(Score: 2) by gawdonblue on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:10PM
If only Emacs had a decent text editor :)
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:40PM (2 children)
Religiosity? Pfah! On an entirely unrelated note, Emacs-Lisp (and Lisp in general) is the one true editor customization, configuration, and extension language.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:42AM (1 child)
Except, of course, for its dynamic instead of static binding. I hear they're trying to do something about that, but the huge mass of elisp code is holding them back.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday August 23 2018, @02:56AM
It seems like Emacs Lisp as of 24.1 [emacswiki.org] now allows for lexical binding on a per-file basis, with 'defvar' declaring a dynamically-bound variable. Did you mean this, or to kill dynamic binding altogether?