Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on this?
2:52 UTC 9-7 vim-emacs
Your poll has more selection bias than the SO survey: your poll was seen only by HNers who decided to read comments on a story with "Emacs" in the title.
Vim's command-line is more alien to the last 4 or 5 gui-bred younger generations of programmers. Learning to master it is therefore more of a badge of hounour, and for that, more sought-after, than learning to master Emacs.
Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x
Spacemacs sounds like it’d fit your needs to a T. Or doom-emacs.
Vim does have a scheme language binding such that vimscript can call an embedded script written in scheme, and that scheme script can interface with vim. This is also the case for other languages like perl, python, ruby, tcl, and several other languages.
But, +1 for emacs.
It just lets you setup "standard" record-types, such as A, AAAA, MX, etc.
(Vi is the God of editors, but Emacs is the editor of Gods.)
:P
Are you sure you're not using vim?
It is well known that users may press these keys by mistake, while falling asleep on their keyboard. Therefore, vim beeps to keep them awake and avoid trouble.
vim all day