Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 17:09 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Toward a "modern" Emacs by Sesse
Parent article: Toward a "modern" Emacs

> (I mean, if you think C-k for cut and C-y for paste is bad, how about vim's modes?),

I suspect there's a sizable "niche" of users who like a modal editor. Because it's a bit of a niche there's less room for competition so vim is able to fill it completely (and to your point: probably because they listen to all their users too). I don't think there is any another modal _and_ popular editor. Because this niche is not so small, it ends up #4 on stackoverflow.

My 2 cents.

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 20:30 UTC (Sat) by cpitrat (subscriber, #116459) [Link]

Exactly that. I've been a vim user for the past 20 years but I remember when I switched to Linux and chose between emacs and vim. Emacs seemed just a very complex clone of other editors with different bindings. Vim had a different approach and I could immediately get why it could be considered more attractive.