I gotta say vim. The editor by itself is great, but when you start applying the vim-like mindset to your toolbox (ie small, composable tools, vim bindings, keyboard centrism, etc) you really step up. That and window managers. I'm on i3 but really it's a matter of choice
I read this somewhere that if you ever wanted to generate an ASCII file with random text, ask a linux noob to open up vim, type something, save the file and exit without letting him know how :)
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Emacs is my favorite vim :)
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Emacs Isn't supposed to be a different tool?
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It's a bit of a joke, but Emacs has a very good vim emulator called evil-mode which gives you everything you could want from vim, plus all the Emacs stuff.
When you combine that with org-mode and org-evil then you basically have everything a person could ask for out of life, so long as that person is stunted and terrible.
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The appeal of vim though is that it comes out of the box or can be easily installed on any server you may be sshing into. I love Emacs, but it doesn't have that. I use Emacs on my machine, but rely on vim anywhere else.
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Hilarious 🤣
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Interesting, are you referring to this?
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