>I would really like it if Magit was a standalone program, rather than an Emacs package, so that I could just switch to a more reasonable editor.
Magit (for me) has so much value _because_ it is part of Emacs , where I edit all my code.
Magit (for me) has so much value _because_ it is part of Emacs , where I edit all my code.
Same. I'll never ever understand people saying "I use Emacs but only because of org-mode" or "I use Emacs but only because of Magit".
I use for Emacs for many things, hence org-mode and Magit have a lot of value to me. But they're not that amazing in themselves as to put up with Emacs only for one of these two.
Emacs is quite something: I don't think it's reasonable to use if only for either org-mode or Magit. You risk feeling bitter about it like GP.
But I’m really more a Vim guy. I’ve used it since the mid-2000s, still regularly use it, and all the keybindings and workflows just make sense to me. I even like vim9script as a language (I prefer it over Lua, but I do for sure like Elisp better). If it wasn’t for Org-mode I’d still be using Vim full-time.