Emacs vs Vim

Which is better?

Personally I use Emacs just because modal editing seemed too strange to me.  Typing 'i' every time I wanted to type something was annoying, so I just learned Emacs instead.

Please be civil in this discussion about programming.  If you wish to troll and be rude, try one of the image boards.

vim is far better for editing code simply because you don't "edit" so much as you write an ad-hoc program to edit the file.

With just a few keystrokes, I can change the name of the function I'm in the middle of editing and return the cursor to the place in the function I was editing it or repeat the last edit I made 30 times.

It takes some getting used to at first because you're not using a text editor, exactly, but it's far better than Emacs which tries to think of text in the form of a story.

You don't write code the same way you write a story and neither should your editor.