99% of can emacs do are to be answered by a firm yes, and an additional “it’s built-in since 198*”
100% THIS! There is even a built-in Vi mode (
viper-mode
) in Emacs!evil is the recommended vi emulation these days. You could say emacs has *at least* three vi emulation modes.
I bet that folks that prefer vi to Vim would prefer viper to evil.
I bet that folks that prefer vi to Vim
Those exist? That’s like hipster^2 (I say this as someone who can’t even type a damn email without my Vi(m) reflexes kicking in).
I’ve always wondered how many emacs questions are related to multithreading, and now I know. 1%
That was so much my experience working with enthusiastic vim fanboys - they kept telling me “look at how awesome vim is, it can now do this!”, and I’d say, “er, yes, Emacs has always had that, I’ve been doing that since 1992”.
They literally never came up with something unique to vim, but that never shook in their firm belief that vim was absolutely the best most powerful editor and Emacs was a joke.
and emacs can do this using https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el
lmao, that vim guy got blown out of the water