As a vim user with only limited emacs experience this makes me curious. That's usually what real vim pros say about vim. It's an awesome tool in itself. use it without plugins. But "we" always thought that emacs is the editor that is exactly made for people who think plugins, fancypancies, bells and whistles are what makes emacs great. Basically for us it seems the cultural difference is vim="skill beats tools, choose one great tool and master it" while emacs="tools beat skill, no need to learn stuff if you can run a script just as well".
Reading the article it seems that authors issues were all due to buggy and incompatible plugins. Some were even written by the author himself. And that's what I'm trying to say: you don't need 20-odd plugins, they only cause problems.
Regarding you other point, I think it's the other way around because vim users can't learn a new set of keyboard shortcuts if their life depended on it and that's basically why we have evil mode.
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As a vim user with only limited emacs experience this makes me curious. That's usually what real vim pros say about vim. It's an awesome tool in itself. use it without plugins. But "we" always thought that emacs is the editor that is exactly made for people who think plugins, fancypancies, bells and whistles are what makes emacs great. Basically for us it seems the cultural difference is vim="skill beats tools, choose one great tool and master it" while emacs="tools beat skill, no need to learn stuff if you can run a script just as well".
What's your view?
Reading the article it seems that authors issues were all due to buggy and incompatible plugins. Some were even written by the author himself. And that's what I'm trying to say: you don't need 20-odd plugins, they only cause problems.
Regarding you other point, I think it's the other way around because vim users can't learn a new set of keyboard shortcuts if their life depended on it and that's basically why we have evil mode.