这就像苹果和橘子。两者都有不同的设计和理念。Vim是一个文本编辑器，而Emacs是一个Lisp解释器，可以进行文本编辑。

我使用Vim是因为它快速、狡猾，而且非常擅长处理文本。它具有可组合的自然键绑定，可以使您的开发任务真正协调一致。Vim基于一种简单的*nix哲学，即做好一件事——即文本操作。

使用bash/zsh和tmux扩展Vim通常很简单，可以学到很多东西。恕我直言，这是一个很好的学习曲线。关键是要学习如何集成这些东西以获得更大的工作应用程序。使用Vim，您需要学习集成，因为除非您告诉它如何进行集成，否则它不会自然地进行集成。另一个值得我使用的扩展是Tig。它是一个基于ncurses的Git前端。我只是有一个绑定，它无声地打开Tig，然后我在那里做所有Git的事情。

由最终用户来决定什么是最好的。Emacs和Vim经受住了时间的考验，证明了它们的价值。最终，一个优秀的程序员只需要一支笔和一张纸就可以发挥创造力。好的算法不需要编辑器的支持。所以两种方法都试试，看看哪种方法能让你更有效率。从这两个软件中学习设计模式，因为有很多东西需要学习和发现!

Emacs的好处

Emacs has both non-modal interface (by default) and modal one (e.g. it can emulate vim and vi through Evil, Viper, or Vimpulse). One of the most ported computer programs. It runs in text mode and under graphical user interfaces on a wide variety of operating systems, including most Unix-like systems (Linux, the various BSDs, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, macOSetc.), MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, AmigaOS, and OpenVMS. Unix systems, both free and proprietary, frequently provide Emacs bundled with the operating system. Emacs server architecture allows multiple clients to attach to the same Emacs instance and share the buffer list, kill ring, undo history and other state. Pervasive online help system with keybindings, functions and commands documented on the fly. Extensible and customizable Lisp programming language variant (Emacs Lisp), with features that include: A powerful and extensible file manager (dired), integrated debugger, and a large set of development and other tools. Having every command be an Emacs Lisp function enables commands to DWIM (Do What I Mean) by programmatically responding to past actions and document state. For example, a switch-or-split-window command could switch to another window if one exists, or create one if needed. This cuts down on the number of keystrokes and commands a user must remember. "An OS inside an OS". Emacs Lisp enables Emacs to be programmed far beyond editing features. Even a base install contains several dozen applications, including two web browsers, news readers, several mail agents, four IRC clients, a version of ELIZA, and a variety of games. All of these applications are available anywhere Emacs runs, with the same user interface and functionality. Starting with version 24, Emacs includes a package manager, making it easy to install additional applications including alternate web browsers, EMMS (Emacs Multimedia System), and more. Also available are numerous packages for programming, including some targeted at specific language/library combinations or coding styles.

vi类编辑器的好处

Edit commands are composable Vi has a modal interface (which Emacs can emulate) Historically, vi loads faster than Emacs. While deeply associated with UNIX tradition, it runs on all systems that can implement the standard C library, including UNIX, Linux, AmigaOS, DOS, Windows, Mac, BeOS, OpenVMS, IRIX, AIX, HP-UX, BSD and POSIX-compliant systems. Extensible and customizable through Vim script or APIs for interpreted languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Lua Ubiquitous. Essentially all Unix and Unix-like systems come with vi (or a variant) built-in. Vi (and ex, but not vim) is specified in the POSIX standard. System rescue environments, embedded systems (notably those with busybox) and other constrained environments often include vi, but not emacs.

来源:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war

这就像苹果和橘子。两者都有不同的设计和理念。Vim是一个文本编辑器，而Emacs是一个Lisp解释器，可以进行文本编辑。

我使用Vim是因为它快速、狡猾，而且非常擅长处理文本。它具有可组合的自然键绑定，可以使您的开发任务真正协调一致。Vim基于一种简单的*nix哲学，即做好一件事——即文本操作。

使用bash/zsh和tmux扩展Vim通常很简单，可以学到很多东西。恕我直言，这是一个很好的学习曲线。关键是要学习如何集成这些东西以获得更大的工作应用程序。使用Vim，您需要学习集成，因为除非您告诉它如何进行集成，否则它不会自然地进行集成。另一个值得我使用的扩展是Tig。它是一个基于ncurses的Git前端。我只是有一个绑定，它无声地打开Tig，然后我在那里做所有Git的事情。

由最终用户来决定什么是最好的。Emacs和Vim经受住了时间的考验，证明了它们的价值。最终，一个优秀的程序员只需要一支笔和一张纸就可以发挥创造力。好的算法不需要编辑器的支持。所以两种方法都试试，看看哪种方法能让你更有效率。从这两个软件中学习设计模式，因为有很多东西需要学习和发现!

If you are looking for an objective analysis of both the editors, look at their origins and the philosophy behind their respective designs. Think, which one would suit you better and learn it (and learn it and learn it, because it takes time before you being to discover its true utility as against any IDE). An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi was written by Bill Joy and Mark Horton and he explains why he choose modal design and rationale for various key strokes ( it helps me to remember that CTRL-W +W (will switch to next Window and it will same for CTRL W+ CTRL W, just in case you held the CTRL key for a longer duration.

这里有一个Emacs时间轴的链接，并有对Multics Emacs论文的参考。这是一篇关于Emacs的RMS论文，我看到重点在可编程文本编辑器上(甚至早在1981年或更早的时候)。

我没有读过emacs的论文，但是读过Bill Joy的vi论文几次。 两者都是旧的，但你仍然会得到哲学，你可以选择使用当前的工具(vim 7。X还是emacs 25?)

编辑:我忘了说，阅读这两篇论文需要耐心和想象力，因为它会让你在阅读时回到过去。但这是值得的。

(以下文字是我的观点，不应被视为事实或侮辱)

With Emacs you are expected to have it open 24/7 and live inside the program, almost everything you do can be done from there. You write your own extensions, use it for note-taking, organization, games, programming, shell access, file access, listening to music, web browsing. It takes weeks and weeks till you will be happy with it and then you will learn new stuff all the time. You will be annoyed when you don't have access to it and constantly change your config. You won't be able to use other peoples emacs versions easily and it won't just be installed. It uses Lisp, which is great. You can make it into anything you want it to be. (anything, at all)

对于Vim，它几乎总是预先安装的。这是太快了。你打开一个文件做一个快速编辑，然后退出。如果您在其他人的机器上，则可以使用基本设置。它的可编辑性不是很好，但它仍然比大多数文本编辑器好得多。它能识别出你大部分时间是在阅读/编辑而不是打字，并使这部分工作更快。你的小指没有emacs症状。这并没有那么令人愤怒。这样更容易学。

即使我每天都在使用Emacs(而且喜欢它)，除非你打算在你选择的程序上花费大量时间，否则我会选择vim

我从vi开始，到emacs，然后到vim。我一直想试试Emacs，看看在过去五年中发生了什么变化。(说到IDE，我已经使用eclipse有一段时间了，但我更喜欢我的终端窗口连接我的mac和我(丈夫的)linux盒子)。

剪切粘贴的事最近一直困扰着我。在Vim中剪切和粘贴比在Emacs和IIRC中需要更多的步骤。从浏览器粘贴到终端窗口很烦人，除非你做了一些我不喜欢做的奇特的事情，所以我忍受了奇怪的缩进。我认为，在emacs中编辑多个文件更容易。如果两个文件都在屏幕上，至少可以从一个文件跳转到下一个文件。

我没有使用vi或emacs的花哨特性，因为我只是想开始编码的工作。我所需要的是漂亮的颜色和适当的制表符到空格的转换(对python尤其重要)。

我认为这完全取决于你是想使用:wq还是Ctrl-x Ctrl-s (IIRC)来保存文件，如果你不关心花哨的东西。

@mgb是正确的。一两个月前，我曾在Debian发行版中使用最低限度的linux来修复一些东西。Vi是唯一可用的编辑器。