[Gllug] vi vs emacs (repeat)

[Tethys]

Nix writes:

>> OK, so I haven't tried using it for many years, and it may have improved
>> since then. But why not just use vi instead?
>
>Because all the power of Emacs is still available.

As we've already ascertained, emacs is no more powerful than vi :-)

As a serious question, though, what could you want to do in terms
of editing text that you can do with emacs, but can't do with vi
(or at least with vim, although the only vim-ism I actually use
is :wn)?

Tet
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