what could i reasonably do with emacs that I can't with neovim? For the actual dev project stuff I still fall back to vs code since that's what the teams be using. I can't see a reason to pick up emacs without a goal in mind
Daily vim vs emacs thread
Christopher Wright
Christian Carter
Kakoune
Robert King
I agree with this. Emacs is powerful for certain things (such as a server terminal) but for basic text editing there's probably better software.
Jaxson Cooper
Use neovim, and vscode > sublime.
Blake Nelson
Bonus: Vim 8 vs Neovim
Carter Scott
Use Magit or Org mode. Both of them are killer apps/extensions that only Emacs has.
Chase Parker
As an Emacs user, I completely understand. A very valid point. I mean, the whole reason I like Emacs is because how comfy it is to extend, customize and then use. Oh what I would give to see Firefox written in Lisp -- Emacs style.
James Rogers
How is magit better than fugitive, and more importantly how is not better than just git?
Assuming it's some sort of git wrapper fuckery, judging by the name
Zachary Morris
Elisp for emacs provides a much better environment for writing complex key-bindings than vi(m). Vim has notoriously bad scripting (it can do a lot of things, but its so fucking frustrating to write it)
Elisp is so simple your standard Jow Forums dweller could write it.
(global-set-key (kbd "") 'elisp-function) [/cpde]
is how you setup a keybinding
Matthew Murphy
Literally learning emacs and trying to make it vim for org mode.