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I was going to agree until I realised that I’ve aliased emacs to open emacsclient and do exactly what office is planning on doing.

you win this one vim, but I’ll get you next time.

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I always say that there's only one reason to use vim over emacs, and that's that vi is on almost every machine you touch. It's an optional POSIX command[0], but it is as common as `more` or `type`. Though that is a bit of a lie. The other reason is that you're more likely to find vim bindings in random programs than emacs :P

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_POSIX_commands

As someone who came from vim, I find evil to be great tbh.

Why go to emacs then? What do you get that vim couldn't provide?

Emacs probably enables more functionality than vscode or any other tool. You can literally browse the web or send emails from emacs - I’m not saying you should, but the potential for performing tasks are infinite.

Vim has by far the better default user interface, though.

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