>>13694925not him, i tried vim and imo modal editing is a big meme. a command mode for navigating and editing originally came about because the first computers were so slow and either had to slowly print out the text you wanted to look at to a printer or could only display one line and probably not even a full line and updating that display took a long time, and editing text itself took a lot of cpu cycles. it made no sense to always be in an insert mode and push the cursor character by character because even though it takes brainpower to craft a command to jump/edit exactly how you want to, it was still faster and less frustrating than waiting for the computer. vim exists merely as the obvious visual extension to these old line editor and inherits modal editing from them simply because thats how it was done in the past, not because it is considered better for modern computers. now that computers are plenty fast, i find modal editing just gets in the way and theres a reason new editors ditched modal editing. holding meta with your thumb to perform a command takes less effort than entering and exiting modal mode imo.
and thats just the default keyboard schemes. if you think i'm wrong and think modal editing really is the shit (its not, you're wrong), you can download evil-mode or some other option that makes emacs modal.
and now since emacs can do both keyboard schemes with relatively little effort on the user's end, all thats left to look at is the numerous ways in which emacs is technically superior to vim, of which of course being fully programmable and reprogrammable on the fly in lisp is the most important (a fact which vimcels have conceeded with the advent of nu-vim or whatever its called), followed by the fact that emacs fills a role bigger than just vim to produce a workflow that really is meant to replace the entire unix workflow.
anyways thats already 1800 characters, i should probably pinch off my stream of computer autism there.
