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Discussion on: War :"Emacs or "Vi" Text Editor

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revoltez

thas not a fair comparison, emacs is better then vi obviously, you could compare vim vs emacs or even better neovim vs emacs, i personally use neovim , emacs is awesome but lisp is just meh compared to the simplicity of lua.

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Chelsea Chemweno

mmh @revoltez interesting .So now that you have been using neovim as compared to emacs . What is one thing that you really love about it ?

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revoltez

the cool thing about neovim is that i will never exit the terminal, so it is more lightweight, and does not cosnume that much memory, essentially neovim was created to make vim be more like emacs and it was a huge success, and now since we have GPU accelerated terminals such as Alacritty or kitty, the exeperience feels completely different, (side note: i could display PDFs and images inside the terminal) and moreover neovim use lua as scripting language and it is simpler then lisp imho.