Tag Archives: Vim

Red Meat Friday: Why Vim?

Posted on 2023-08-18 by jcs

This is Irreal rising in defense of Vim. That may seem strange for an Emacs-centric blog but I’ve always said Vim and Emacs are the two best editors and which one you choose depends on whether you want a lightweight, … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Neovim and Astro

Posted on 2023-03-31 by jcs

Regular readers know that I was a Vi/Vim user for many years before I switched to Emacs. I liked Vim and was happy with it but when I started writing in Lisp dialects, trying Emacs seemed liked a worthwhile experiment. … Continue reading →

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A New Take On Quitting Vim

Posted on 2022-11-17 by jcs

Finally! A new take on the quitting Vim meme: I believe AGI will develop the ability to prevent humans from terminating it. After all vim got 60% there with a fraction of compute resources. — Ferenc Huszár (@fhuszar) November 15, … Continue reading →

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Editor Keystrokes

Posted on 2020-06-09 by jcs

It’s surprising to me that many people still don’t know where some of the keystrokes we use everyday in our editors came from. The most famous example, I suppose, is why Vi(m) uses the j k h l keys for … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 67: Emacs vs. Vi(m)

Posted on 2020-02-23 by jcs

As promised, Mike Zamansky has published his thoughts on the Emacs vs. Vi controversy in a another video in his Using Emacs Series. Unlike Zamansky, I was a long time user of Vi/Vim before I moved to Emacs so I’m … Continue reading →

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A Comparison of Vim and Emacs

Posted on 2020-02-22 by jcs

Over at the YouTube DistroTube Channel, Derek Taylor has an even handed video that explores the question Vim Versus Emacs. Which Is Better? Taylor is a n00b with both editors but has come to the same conclusion that I have: … Continue reading →

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Uses This Interview with Chris Wellons

Posted on 2019-10-04 by jcs

Uses This has an interview with Chris Wellons. I’ve written about Wellons many many times and consider him an outstanding engineer. I especially liked his post on Mutable String and Emacs Buffer Passing Style, which explains a method of dealing … Continue reading →

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Composability in Vim

Posted on 2019-08-07 by jcs

To the uninitiated, Vim’s command set seems a mishmash of arbitrary letter sequences that don’t seem to make any sense. To make matters worse, there are a lot of them. The truth, though, is that the commands are very regular … Continue reading →

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The Holy War

Posted on 2019-07-24 by jcs

After writing yesterday’s post on Vim vs. Emacs, I serendipitously saw a tweet pointing at the Wikipedia article on the Editor War. It describes our holiest of holy wars and gives a pretty thorough analysis of both sides’ views. The … Continue reading →

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Vim vs. Emacs

Posted on 2019-07-23 by jcs

One of our longest standing holy wars is Emacs versus Vim. I’ve been around long enough that I’ve seen all the jokes and memes. Seen them over and over again, in fact. At this point, I doubt anyone is even … Continue reading →

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