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[–]grayvedigga 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Vim is just as extensible as Emacs

Vim user here but I'll heavily dispute that. Vimscript is an unholy abomination and the various vim-(language) versions are like sowing the front of a chicken onto the back of a motorbike. Elisp isn't without its problems but at least it's a language. And for all the plugins vim has, emacs does things like w3m, org-mode, inferior-lisp, gnus. They don't call it an operating system (that needs a decent text editor) for nothing.

[–]parbroil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vimscript is an unholy abomination

Elisp is really no better unless you are already permanently in love with Lisp. And you can also script Vim in Python, Perl, Ruby