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I came to say vim...Is the debate still a thing?
No.
There is no debate because vim is the superior editor, period.
Vim is the greatest tool ever made for manipulating text as text. Emacs is easier to modify (I <3 Lisp) and is better at handling the semantics of the text it's working with.
Also, Emacs has evil-mode now, so the only reason to still prefer Vim is 1. A strange love of vimscript, or 2. A lack of permissions to install Emacs.
I used to be on the vim side in the debates, but now that I've also used Emacs - Porque no los dos?
I've been using vim for years. Because I can't figure out how to exit it
:wq! to save and quit or :q! to just quit
zz will also quit it. Zz when vim is sleepy
Every time I see those videos I think to myself. "Man I'm still working on this shitty first brain and now I have to make a 2nd one?"
Or x, which does the same thing, with the same number of keystrokes. But the ZZ keys are closer together