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I went in the other direction about 5 years ago after 20 years of always installing Emacs on every computer I ever used. Vim has had a much bigger impact on my productivity.

Partly because of excellent plugins (VSCode, Visual Studio), partly because, for some reason I bothered to learn Vim shortcuts to degree I never did with Emacs. And I just love that vi and vim is quick and available on my various cloud servers.

Once in a while I toy with the idea of going back and using evil mode (I keep reading about org mode).

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> after 20 years of always installing Emacs on every computer I ever used.

You don't need to install emacs on every computer you use. The emacs on your laptop has tramp so you can edit any file on any computer you have ssh access into.

I've used vim for years, but a few months back started using org mode with Spacemacs evil mode.

I like org mode a lot. It has a lot of functionality that makes it useful for all sorts of things beyond plain text editing. Using evil meant I didn't need retrain for common editing operations, although certain org-mode specific functionality means learning new Emacs-style key sequences.

Other than that, I still haven't learned anything about using plain emacs, so I only use emacs for editing org files. They're a different enough entity from ordinary text files that switching editors to use org mode doesn't bother me.

Fwiw Spacemacs is another good combination of the two, similar to evil mode.

https://www.spacemacs.org/

Doom too https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

+1 for Doom. I tried spacemacs for a while but didn't find it enjoyable. Doom was exactly what I needed and now I don't use anything else.

Spacemacs has been gradually breaking over the years, and is a lot more complex than Doom. I migrated about a year ago, and save for some fairly minimal muscle-memory adaptation and modifications to some packages' config, it's been very smooth sailing.

Thank you. Went down a small rabbit hole reading about Doom & Spacemacs and am pretty sure I'll pull the trigger, to get org mode and magit.

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