What does Emacs do better than Vim?
Emacs tends to be relatively straightforward, similar to commonly used text editors like Notepad. Vim is known to have a much steeper learning curve than Emacs. However, it’s been said that putting in the extra effort is worth it because you will ultimately be able to work much faster and more comfortably in Vim.
Is Emacs more customizable than Vim?
This makes Emacs take longer to start up (even compared to vim) and require more memory. However, it is highly customizable and includes a large number of features, as it is essentially an execution environment for a Lisp program designed for text-editing.
What does MW mean in Emacs?
C-Space Set beginning mark (for region marking for example) C-W “kill” (delete) the marked region region. M-W copy the marked region.
What can you do with Emacs?
You can search, record macros, jump around like you would in VIM, but you get the full power of Emacs at your hand as well. This means you can be in the middle of typing something and immediately press C-c C-lwhile still in insert mode to load your file into the REPL.
What are the best Vim plugins for evil mode?
There are even ports of the most popular VIM plugins into Evil Mode, such as Tim Pope’s vim-surround. Almost everything works out of the box, and even more, it works really well with the built-in Emacs key-bindings. You can search, record macros, jump around like you would in VIM, but you get the full power of Emacs at your hand as well.
Why can’t I Close a window in Emacs?
The reason for this is that qis being used at many places in Emacs to close things, and sometimes it so happens that Evil Mode is turned on in that window at the same time, which results in recording a macro instead of closing the window. Here’s my complete list of customizations.
Is visual Vim a bad IDE?
VIM is like my home and I’m deeply in love with it. The problem is that VIM is a horrible IDE. It’s an amazing and super productive editor, but it really sucks at doing IDE-like things. Now you might be thinking I’m a noob who needs to click on good looking buttons in RubyMine to get things done.