I think I fell in love with emacs when I realized that individual key presses could be scripted. Or possibly when I wrapped my head around macro injection. Hard to say, this thing grew on me from being an absolute space alien of an architecture to the first tool in the toolbox I reach for if I've got a new project to tackle. My advice to people when editor wars come up is that going deep on something is more importan…
> I happened to learn emacs first and would be repeating a lot of labor to go as deep on vi. Speaking as someone who used vim for 10 years before getting sniped by Emacs (ten years ago.. shit I'm getting old): vim isn't as deep as Emacs, it's not even close. vim is only as deep as evil-mode. In fact, vim has a UX paradigm that's out-of-the-ordinary, and that's it. That's why in Emacs, modal editing is just another mi…
Re: The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
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