[Gllug] vi vs emacs (repeat)

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On Wed, 09 Mar 2005, Tethys murmured woefully:
> Ian Norton writes:
> 
>>Isn't there some freakyness that makes emacs behave *exactly* like vim?
> 
> No. There's some horrible hack that makes emacs behave like an ad hoc
> informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of vi.
> 
> 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.

It's good if you like the vi keybindings and the feature-set of Emacs.

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