Vim as Language

I use Emacs for almost all my work, but I find Vi(m)&#x27;s editing capability is superior. I use evil-mode and it does extremely well in emulating Vim. Even text-objects and ex-commands are available. ace-jump-mode and undo-tree are two other extensions that significantly improve my editing experience.<p>I find dired, tramp, org-mode, auctex, magit and good async support indispensible and the Vim equivalents are either less powerful or non-existent.

This is what I was looking for a long time! Thank you. As vim is not learnable in a week-end. Understanding the basics progressively (like you do with a language) seems a nice approach.

I&#x27;ve been using vi for (egad!) over 30 years, and vim for about 8 years, and I still learn something new about it every now and then. In this case, text objects. I&#x27;d never run across that feature before.<p>An example of vi&#x2F;vim&#x27;s power I&#x27;ve used for ages is formatting a paragraph of text: {!}fmt&lt;cr&gt;<p>With text objects, in the middle of a paragraph somewhere,!pfmt&lt;cr&gt; -- Much easier to type!<p>(yes, I know vim has the gq command, but I prefer piping text to the *nix fmt command.)

I read a similar article a couple months ago: <a href="http://ismail.badawi.io/blog/2014/04/23/the-compositional-nature-of-vim/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ismail.badawi.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;23&#x2F;the-compositional-na...</a>

Emacs, &quot;a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor&quot;[1]<p>Vim, &quot;a great editor, utterly lacking a decent window manager&quot;<p>The latter is just outright painful -- tabs, windows, and buffers, so much promise, yet...such fail O_o<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Editor_war</a>

I plan to remain a member of The Church of Emacs until I die.

&quot;One more step Please complete the security check to access benmccormick.org ... Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA?&quot;<p>What language is that? Oh, I see, thats &quot;customers please go away&quot; written in techie-language.<p>Well, I didn&#x27;t learn a lot about Vim from that, but I know not to go back. Too bad, I like Vim.