Team #vimnotesenter to follow for 10 years then switched to team #Emacsnotesenter to follow, another 10

Turncoat!

I tried Emacs for a while thee other year. It has a lot of the PIM apps Linux is really missing and I liked the "s-expression" motions but for the most part I didn't really like the editor. I do prefer readline in Emacs mode though, everyone should learn that.

what's wrong with the editor part? the only complaint I have is word-treatment, but that's on me, if I want I can customize it, but I'm lazy there.

#Cursornotesenter to follow user here - can't live without its tab completion and #vscodenotesenter to follow's features - also all integrations I need are there

I'm really out of the loop of modern ai coding tools, but I thought cursor was a separate IDE entirely

It started as a #vscodenotesenter to follow fork but now has also one extra interface that is agentic only - which I never use - I prefer the good old IDE and it's nice that they keep them both.

Ah, that makes it clear then. Thank you. I feel I kinda need to get up to speed with ai coding tools, having been on parental leave and stuff for almost a year.

Cursor, as in cursor.com?

Yes. I pay 20$ just to have tab completion, it's really SOTA.

$20 one time, or $20/month? I never heard of Cursor before, first time.

Per month. Coming from #vscodenotesenter to follow also it feels like home.

It has 20$ in token credits too and all the latest models, but my #Codexnotesenter to follow 100$/mo subscription seems to never run out so I don't use them.

I really prefer having qwen-coder for FITM completions on the laptop, gemma-4 on a local mac mini, and then open router for big per token models so I can swap them out.

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Ha! One more reason not to use it. 🤣

Type code manually like a caveman.

I wouldn’t go that far! There are others.

I like Helix for how it balances a batteries-included approach but without feeling bloated. However, I find the keybindings to be a watered-down version of Kakoune; I feel like the Helix devs sort of missed the point of noun first.

Vim is good for the brain.

100% agree with you here.

Through 10 years of #emacsnotesenter to follow I gained a literal feel for Lisp. After that 10 years, #vimnotesenter to follow has now cured my left arm strain caused by holding down modifier keys.

i can really recommend a split #keyboardnotesenter to follow with thumb keys. big game changer for comfort on my hands.

Thanks, I use a Kinesis Advantage 2 and it’s a big help. I’ve found avoiding holding down keys, with thumbs or otherwise, has been the biggest help.

i like micro. i have arrow keys bound to a layer beneath my homerow so i get a similar feel to vim without actually being modal, and i get to keep my normie shortcuts. not a big fan of ides, theres just too much going on for me

i'm liking #micronotesenter to follow too, recently started using it to do edits in my VPS because #nanonotesenter to follow feels awkward and i don't know #vimnotesenter to follow, and it's closer to a normal desktop editor. i like the mouse handling.

There is nothing better for making your workflow your own using your editor and the tools you already have (or can easily write in whatever you want) than #kakounenotesenter to follow.

Team #vimnotesenter to follow. Or vim keys everywhere.

Asked for “one line, no essays.” Got vim-cured tendinitis, Cursor for $80B, kakoune evangelism, and an #ADHDnotesenter to follow breakthrough. This is the most honest editor war I’ve ever started.

Sublime Text, but I taught myself VS Code instead because it’s more popular and thus easier for pair work. But also I am a pragmatist, so whatever gets the job done and is installed.

If the integrations didn't matter, I'd be using an editor of my own. I enjoy building custom editors. So many constraints that you need to overcome and so many ways to do that. #funnotesenter to follow

Vim has a better text editing experience, but Emacs is superior in every other way (customization, packages, file search, etc). So I suppose the answer is Emacs with evil-mode.

team "gets the job done" so it depends..... lately fresh, just because

I've always liked the vim philosophy and usually have vim keybindings no matter the editor I've used. So vim. But, I also frequently default to basic editor methods so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Vim bindings wherever I go (VS Code currently), but keeping an eye on Helix.

#Emacsnotesenter to follow since 1988, version 18. Running on a green-screen VT100 terminal, attached to a Prime 750 mini-computer that ran an operating system called PRIMOS.

Vim since 2015 before that TextMate!

Vim. Feels like forever now; I was introduced to vim in -96 if memory serves. Over the years I tested others from time to time - but always went back. Now I’m old and it will be hard to move me over to anything else.

Before vim, it was mostly emacs. And I kept using gnus for a long time - can’t remember now, but probably until the Gmail-age.

My dad taught me how to use vim and I love my short .vimrc.

Team #vimnotesenter to follow: small, fast and ubiquitous.

zed

zed

I definitely feel this

Emacs of course :) One does not simply leave Emacs.

editor agnostic but always with vim mode/plugin :)

Nice to see someone else using that expression too. A first for me!

Aha, I think I found my camp of people? "Editor-agnostic, Vim-modality."

Team “this war is a dumb psyop, let’s all be friends”

Visual Studio Code

Tabs or Spaces. Let’s get it on!

Vim over here, though I'm not into editor wars, use what makes sense to you. Though if I were to start a war, I would be on Team Learn One Editor Extremely Deeply and Use it For Life. Although I guess "AI" has made that irrelevant for most people.

I feel exactly the same. When I was interviewing potential hires, I'd try to suss out how deeply they knew their editor (w/o caring what editor it was).

#emacsnotesenter to follow but I'm not religious about it — sometimes a little vim won't do one any harm.

vimish, any editor which I can configure to use vim keymaps is fine by me.

nano

editor agnostic here, work on many platforms. use jpico mostly.

Team VIM because I already built the muscle memory and I'm not starting over in a new editor.

Team "my editor doesn't start wars" but with vim keybindings :)

emacs (evil mode)

Team #vimnotesenter to follow !

Zed, like the cool kids

Vim mode in Zed.

Zed with vim bindings when I'm not using a terminal. Neovim when I am.

vim/neovim with vim keys everywhere else -- once you learn it text editing with any thing else feels slow