Do more people use Vim or Emacs?
With over 50 billion commands collected across the Cmd user base, we were able to deep dive into the stats and figure out if Vim is actually the preferred text editor compared to Emacs. In our findings, we found 93% of the users on all our clients’ projects use Vi/Vim as their primary file editor.
Should you learn Vim or Emacs?
It’s a useful first step, instead of worrying about becoming the next Richard Stallman. This alone is the main reason for learning vim. If you want to edit a file quickly in the terminal, vim is going to be much quicker than Emacs.
What companies use Vim?
1427 companies reportedly use Vim in their tech stacks, including Lyft, CRED, and Stack.
- Lyft.
- CRED.
- Stack.
- Accenture.
- GO-JEK.
- CircleCI.
- Alibaba Travels.
- deleokorea.
Does Vim make you more productive?
Yes, VIM is great. Vim as a coding editor allows you to completely get rid of your mouse. Everything can be controlled via your keyboard shortcuts and if you master them, you can be much more productive than in any kind of “standard” editor.
What companies use Emacs?
125 companies reportedly use Emacs in their tech stacks, including Stack, Accenture, and Bukalapak.
- Stack.
- Accenture.
- Bukalapak.
- Chime.
- Sendcloud.
- Flexport.
- Digital Services.
- SoFi.
What can you do with Emacs?
Emacs helps you be productive by providing an integrated environment for many different kinds of tasks: All of the basic editing commands (and there are lots of them) are available no matter what you’re trying to do: write code, read a manual, use a shell, or compose an email.
What is the advantage of Vim?
Vim Uses Less Amount of System Resources Vim’s strengths are its smallness and simplicity, therefore it doesn’t consume a considerable amount of system resources as opposed to other text editors especially graphical text editors. It’s also normally very fast and lightweight even when editing huge files of source code.
Why are so many people still using Emacs and Vim?
Vim and Emacs users, once at each other’s throats, seem to have implemented each other’s keybindings (a thing they actually do) to take on a common enemy — any modern IDE. The consensus among many Vim/Emacs users creates a picture many tech users from a certain generation would be familiar with.
Which is the most popular version of Emacs?
The version of Emacs most people use today is called GNU Emacs, which was created by no other than GNU Project founder Richard Stallman. Just like Vim, Emacs runs on basically all operating systems you will ever come across.
Who is the creator of the text editor Vim?
Vim’s creator, Bram Moolenaar, originally named the editor Vi Imitation, but he later decided to change the meaning of the acronym to Vi Improved. A fan of open-source software, Moolenaar released Vim under a charityware license, encouraging users who enjoy the text editor to donate to children in Uganda.
Why is Emacs such a large text editor?
The reason why Emacs is large has everything to do with the fact that it’s much closer to an operating system than a text editor. It features a Turing complete programming language, Emacs Lisp, which makes it possible to customize and extend Emacs in ways that the mind has trouble comprehending.