After that the other practical difference was Emacs modes.

Why emacs is better than vim. Emacs loads with a noticeable delay of 23 seconds so if you compare it to vim by using it as though it was vim and loading it up 10 times in an hour in your terminal youll wonder why. Thats when you start a long compilation and want to do something else inside the same editor instance while the compiler is churning. And I tend to think that after a moderate amount of customisation of either one Vim will still start up faster than Emacs.

Nowadays you have spacemacs if you want an easy switch from Vim. However its 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. However if your goal is to be more.

It can do everything that vim does but the plugin language is better and more rich and so all the plugins are better and more rich. Emacs is more powerful you can even make it behave like vimbutit takes a lot of time and effort to really customize it to your liking. It has better default extension language.

Vim is made especially for text editing and the defaults reflect that if you dont mind modal editing and I love it. However Emacs not only has the editing tools that Vim has but also expands on them by providing additional features such as email client debugger etc. Spacemacs is a user-friendly and well-documented Emacs kit that integrates the best Emacs packages out there.

Vim may be extensible but it is primarily a text editor. However Emacs not only has the editing tools that Vim has but also expands on them by providing additional features such as email client debugger etc. For me Emacs has these advantages over vim.

Both Emacs and Vim are excellent tools for editing files of all types of programming languages. Emacs vs vim. On the other hand Vim is a power-users tool using keyboard shortcuts to speed up tasks.