May I recommend eww for Emacs’s innovative UI?
The article discusses the composable text editing model praised by Vim users, noting that this feature is common in many text editors. The author expresses confusion over why Vim's composability is highlighted as unique when it is a standard characteristic. Ultimately, the author appreciates Vim for its variety of operations and automation capabilities rather than its composability.
- ▪Vim users often emphasize the composable text editing model, which is common in most text editors.
- ▪The author finds it odd that Vim's composability is celebrated when similar features exist in editors like Windows Notepad.
- ▪What the author values most about Vim is its extensive variety of operations and the ability to automate editing tasks.
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Published: <2025-12-28 Sun>. Comments on Mastodon. I want to articulate something I find confusing. It’s not about Vim, but rather about Vim users. (And since this is an Emacs blog, I’ll also give some Emacs pointers along the way.) I used Vim for a few years and still like it a lot. When forced to edit text in a non-Emacs editor, I usually use the editor’s Vim emulation mode because there is very often a decent one. Vim users often say that what makes Vim great is that it has a composable text editing language, and they’ll tell you that what that means is that you choose separately what text to operate on and what operation to perform on it, and can combine any operation with any way to select text.
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