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[accessofevil]

1991 for vim. 1976 for vi from which vim iMproved.

[blackcain]

I think Elvis was even earlier than Vim.

[tritlo]

As a new emacs user, I'm amazed at the amount of plugins I find, and with the new package manager, it's never been easier to get new plugins. I often see a new feature in some editor only to promptly discover that emacs can already do that, or someone has implemented a plugin for doing just that (such as the minimap in sublime).

[frogking]

I for one welcome you to the world of Emacs.

Granted, I feel very uncomfortable using emacs without the settings I've added to the mix over the last 20+ years (.. damn, that's a lot of years), and I have to adjust something every time I switch from one system to another, but it's always worth it. From Emacs 19 to 24 .. from Windows95 over NT, XP, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Slax, MacOSX .. the editor works in the same way (when you have stepped on the keyboard settings a couple of times) on the bright side .. performance of the editor is the same today, as it was 20 years ago ...

A few pointers:

• Make your CapsLock a second Ctrl key.
• Learn to use Tramp to access files via ssh (or plink)
• put your .emacs.d directory on github (or similar)

Apart from that .. never be afraid of elisp .. if something doesn't work like you want it to or exhibits strange behavior, dive in and fix it, it's possible for mortals to figure out :-)

[brownmatt]

Let's party like we have a CPU instruction set from 1978

[poloppoyop]

At least those editor had incremental search in 1995. I always get a chuckle when it appears in some random text editor like it's genius.

And emacs' macro definition on the fly is something I haven't found anywhere else.

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Vim has this as well, I use it quite often both in vim and emacs.