Posted: Feb 18, 2017 6:35 pm
by lpetrich
Seems like emacs aims at being a complete platform, while vi sticks to being an editor. That may explain some of the emacs-vi war, with the vi supporters being content with a text editor.

That may also explain why the winner is a sort of hybrid: vi-scale text editors with emacs-style editing. Like pico and nano on the command line and just about every bitmapped-GUI text editor.