> someone has made the wrong editor choice Just the other day I made this comment on the topic of "nvim vs emacs", I think it fits here ...
> someone has made the wrong editor choice Just the other day I made this comment on the topic of "nvim vs emacs", I think it fits here well: > editor choice shouldn't be treated like soccer or religion Oh, I wish there was a choice here. I've been vimming since 2010, the idea of vim modality is an excellent, practical, beautiful model. It's a fantastic idea and the ideas do port. That's why I've used vim-bindings in every editor/IDE/terminal/browser I used. Emacs, however, is not an editor. It's a Lisp REPL loop with a built-in editor. The only contenders in this space are Light Table, Nightcode, or Lem and none of them truly can compete with Emacs (at least right now), because you can't just ignore forty years of package development. Maybe some more people start using Lem and keep vibe-coding a huge body of Elisp into CL and then maybe we finally see something that can potentially dethrone Emacs. It's not sports or a religion - you can feverishly love trains and despise airplanes, but you've got to admit, trains just can't replace airplanes, regardless of what you love and believe in.
Posted by iLemming on Oct 29, 2026, 4:47 AM
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> someone has made the wrong editor choice Just the other day I made this comment on the topic of "nvim vs emacs", I think it fits here ...
NewGLES isn't a bad way to teach graphics but I wish there was a middle ground between it and VK.
New> [Edit: note that the above video is "content" so if you're not used to the style it might be offputting but I'm into it] I hate that i...
And thats why its a large language model not a large skin cancer recognition model or large creative thinking model I hate that people th...
I hate that this article is talking about Photocraft killing Photoshop because of AI as though Ivan Kutskir didn't build Photopea years a...
That's a fair complaint, but for the most part that only applies to the faces (which would be an absolute nightmare to hand animate in sy...
I wish there was something that could be done beyond feeling powerless.
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> someone has made the wrong editor choice Just the other day I made this comment on the topic of "nvim vs emacs", I think it fits here ...
> someone has made the wrong editor choice Just the other day I made this comment on the topic of "nvim vs emacs", I think it fits here well: > editor choice shouldn't be treated like soccer or religion Oh, I wish there was a choice here. I've been vimming since 2010, the idea of vim modality is an excellent, practical, beautiful model. It's a fantastic idea and the ideas do port. That's why I've used vim-bindings in every editor/IDE/terminal/browser I used. Emacs, however, is not an editor. It's a Lisp REPL loop with a built-in editor. The only contenders in this space are Light Table, Nightcode, or Lem and none of them truly can compete with Emacs (at least right now), because you can't just ignore forty years of package development. Maybe some more people start using Lem and keep vibe-coding a huge body of Elisp into CL and then maybe we finally see something that can potentially dethrone Emacs. It's not sports or a religion - you can feverishly love trains and despise airplanes, but you've got to admit, trains just can't replace airplanes, regardless of what you love and believe in.
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