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tl;dr: Emacs is forever, because I got used to the key-bindings.

Seriously?

You'll hear similar things from vim users. And for those of us who use neither, we also like what is familiar, and it may keep some of us away from both emacs and vim.

(As a vim user) I like to think that the keybindings actually make sense. There are tons of articles out there about the verbage of vim commands. Once you get used to the vocabulary vim makes a lot of sense. (But it could just be Stockholm syndrome for most of us)

As someone who spent about a year getting used to VIM, I can actually document the progress of Stockholm Syndrome in my own chat history.

The first few weeks are filled with things like "Why is (d)elete cut?! I want to delete it, not put it in the buffer! And why do I have to push 'd' twice? This is stupid." or "Who thinks (w)rite makes more sense than (s)ave?"

But then over time, I started internalizing the commands and whenever someone else would echo the same complaints back to me, I'd usually find myself responding "Well, vim is pretty old, so you have to forgive it for not being up on modern terminology. If you just remember the keywords, it usually helps a bit. Plus a good configuration makes it a lot easier to use!"

Now I'm at a point where I find myself hitting ":wq" more often than not regardless of whether I'm actually in vim... and I started looking up ways to use vim keybindings in Sublime Text.

im not very good in vi or vim or emac but it essential to me debug, alter certain code using putty if network very slow.if network connection is okay,i prefer edit it via winscp.

What's so strange about that? Being comfortable and efficient with key bindings is crucial to programming.

TIL why people add those redundant "Conclusion" part to their posts.

Ugh. For the sake of completeness, then, let me add mine here:

Conclusion

From time to time, a new editor is being hyped. It might have a good list of features, in a shinier UI than your current editor: but unless it clone each and every feature you use, you'll probably just waste your time trying to get used it to it, and it's better stick to what you're used to. Remember, it's a tool, not a jewel.

Hah, that basically does some it up. This post isn't very front page worthy as it has zero content with the exception of emacs being more extensible. The author should have given some specific examples about which things Emacs can do that others like Sublime (and others) can't. In the end, use whatever editor makes you the most productive.

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