21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)

The choice of features was profoundly peculiar. You certainly can't
compare it across editors, or you'd conclude that vim has more features
than Emacs: and vim, while heavier-weight than vi, is surely not in the
Emacs kitchen-sink league yet.

I suspect the real criterion for feature selection was 'does the list
roughly fit on a screen yet? No? Think up some more.'