Emacs vs. Vim

Key Differences



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What is Emacs?
Emacs is a popular text editor used mainly on Unix-based systems by programmers, scientists, engineers, students, and system administrators. Emacs is for people who want to spend many hours configuring their editor, have fancy looking features and integrate with external programs, and continuously press the modifier keys.
What is Vim?
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is often called a “programmer’s editor,” and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE . Vim is for people who want a basic text editor that can be configured in a quick and dirty way, supports a few features, and overall stays out of your way.