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

对于我来说，选择使用emacs而不是vim的最大区别是emacs内置的gdb支持。Vim的默认发行版中并没有包含这个功能，而且用于集成gdb和Vim的项目几乎不可能使用MacVim

VI总是可用的，并且将在最残缺的、单用户模式、坏的图形、没有键图、慢的链接机器上运行——因此，仅仅为了系统管理任务，了解如何在它中编辑简单的文件是值得的。

Emacs是一个编辑器中的完整用户界面。其思想是在启动机器时启动Emacs，并且永远不要离开它。可能会有数千个会话。

与使用GUI编辑器/IDE和使用python/awk/等来完成额外任务相比，学习Emacs的功能是否值得，取决于你自己。

我一开始是vim的用户，然后我切换到emacs，然后是vim，现在我又在尝试使用emacs。

两人都是伟大的编辑。 如今，两者都是可扩展的 两者都有很棒的插件和社区

作为开发人员，我们输入很多，最后对我来说，在缓冲区和文件中移动是最大的重复任务，所以我想要一个编辑器，我可以快速移动!

再次尝试emacs的动机是，我发现它的Ctrl键比vim更快，而且更容易推理。

在vim中，你有模式，你有插入模式，可视模式，正常模式，当你按下某个东西时会发生什么取决于你所处的模式，这是一种有状态的编辑方式。移动，进入插入模式，编辑，退出插入模式，然后再次移动。如果我错过了ESC按键或类似的东西，我经常会迷失自我。

在emacs中没有模式，基本上你用你的粉色按下Ctrl并键入按键，比如C-x C-f, C-x C-s, C-x C-c。有一些你需要释放ctrl键的键绑定，我讨厌这些键绑定，总是用按下control键的键绑定来替换它们。

我认为emacs方法更快地思考和输入，但是vim有另一个优点，那就是。它的命令是可组合的，它们通常有一个格式。例如，要删除一行，可以使用dd，删除一个单词dw。插件利用了这种感觉，使用vim-surround插件，你可以用ds”(delete surround)删除引号，删除到下一个/ dt/。删除之前的/:dT/，以此类推。所以只要你学会了移动的东西就会变得很有趣。

综上所述，今天我发现emacs键绑定在宏编辑方面更快，而vim命令在微编辑方面更强大

在过去的五年里，我一直在使用vim，所以我的编辑思想主要是关于单词、线条、周围环境、块等。删除这一行，删除引号，替换引号， 删除字在游标，我试图找到emacs移动为那

最后我想说的是，我更关心fzf而不是emacs或vim，我希望有一个完全基于fzf的编辑器

在你的问题中，你没有提到你想让它用Lisp编程!但是当你评论你的回答时，我明白你实际上想要一个LISP编程接口。

对于这个精确的任务，忘记Vi吧。Emacs与LISP的集成非常棒!你应该使用SLIME。然后，您将与REPL进行出色的集成，能够将函数、缓冲区或文件直接计算到emacs缓冲区中运行的解释器中，以及更多…

Vim was always faster to start up than Emacs. I'm saying that on any machine, out-of-the-box installs of Vim will start up faster than out-of-the-box installs of Emacs. And I tend to think that after a moderate amount of customisation of either one, Vim will still start up faster than Emacs. After that, the other practical difference was Emacs' modes. They make your life tremendously easier when editing XML, C/C++/Java/whatever, LaTeX, and most popular languages you can think of. They make you want to keep the editor open for long sessions and work.

总而言之，我会说Vim让您使用它来完成简短、快速的编辑任务;而Emacs则鼓励您投入长时间的会话。