<story><title>After over a decade of Vim, I’m hooked on Emacs</title><url>http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9861-emacs-1-ditching-a-bunch-of-stuff-and-moving-to-emacs-and-org-mode</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>learc83</author><text>Vim has been a bit of a mixed blessing for me. I rarely actually use vim, but I use the keybindings &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s great because I can fairly comfortably move between most editors because most editors have a vim mode.&lt;p&gt;The downside is that most editors don&amp;#x27;t have a complete vim mode, so it&amp;#x27;s never 100%.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sean1708</author><text>Ah see what really bugs me is that most vim modes &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; try to be a complete vim mode (and the fact that they never succeed just adds insult to injury), they always try to be a vim emulator instead of providing vim-like keybindings that make sense in the context of the editor.&lt;p&gt;I do appreciate that I&amp;#x27;m very much in the minority here though.</text></comment>
<story><title>After over a decade of Vim, I’m hooked on Emacs</title><url>http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9861-emacs-1-ditching-a-bunch-of-stuff-and-moving-to-emacs-and-org-mode</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>learc83</author><text>Vim has been a bit of a mixed blessing for me. I rarely actually use vim, but I use the keybindings &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s great because I can fairly comfortably move between most editors because most editors have a vim mode.&lt;p&gt;The downside is that most editors don&amp;#x27;t have a complete vim mode, so it&amp;#x27;s never 100%.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strkek</author><text>Bonus points for using vim mode on browser editors like CodeMirror or ACE, and then trying to delete a word via &amp;lt;C-w&amp;gt;.</text></comment>