<story><title>Vim 8.0 is coming</title><url>https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvinis</author><text>I have vim, neovim and emacs (and spacemacs) installed. Right now I&amp;#x27;m trying to get into emacs a bit more.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s interesting to me, and the reason I try to keep up to date with the latest changes for all four editors, is that it&amp;#x27;s been now, what, 25 years (?) since emacs and vim started &amp;quot;competing&amp;quot; and they still are. I guess we could be saying the same in 10 years about firefox and chrome, but it still is amazing in my opinion. It&amp;#x27;s amazing that so much work has been done to vim and emacs, and so many changes, so many users using them for different things. And there is still no clear winner. I&amp;#x27;m not trying to start a discussion about the strenghts and weaknesses of each. Just expressing my appreciation.&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your great work, to everyone involved with vim and emacs, and more recently neovim and spacemacs. You are awesome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scarblac</author><text>According to Wikipedia (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Vi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Vi&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Emacs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Emacs&lt;/a&gt;) both vi and Emacs are from 1976. 40 years this year!</text></comment>
<story><title>Vim 8.0 is coming</title><url>https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvinis</author><text>I have vim, neovim and emacs (and spacemacs) installed. Right now I&amp;#x27;m trying to get into emacs a bit more.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s interesting to me, and the reason I try to keep up to date with the latest changes for all four editors, is that it&amp;#x27;s been now, what, 25 years (?) since emacs and vim started &amp;quot;competing&amp;quot; and they still are. I guess we could be saying the same in 10 years about firefox and chrome, but it still is amazing in my opinion. It&amp;#x27;s amazing that so much work has been done to vim and emacs, and so many changes, so many users using them for different things. And there is still no clear winner. I&amp;#x27;m not trying to start a discussion about the strenghts and weaknesses of each. Just expressing my appreciation.&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your great work, to everyone involved with vim and emacs, and more recently neovim and spacemacs. You are awesome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>I became an heavy Emacs user as I could not find the comfort of Borland IDEs in UNIX, as I started to use it.&lt;p&gt;Since I moved away from C++ into Java and .NET land, never felt the need to use them any longer.&lt;p&gt;And nowadays, with Qt Creator, Clion, xCode, AppCode and VS, I also don&amp;#x27;t feel the need of them when I need to go back to C++.&lt;p&gt;It is very good to know the basics from plain Vi, because there are still commercial UNIX systems without GNU tools installed, just bare bones installations.&lt;p&gt;So for me the question is why there are still people that enjoy working as if their computers are using a 25 year old developer experience.</text></comment>