Why don't people ever give native emacs a try?
No evil-mode, no super-bloat spacemacs, just barebone emacs with maybe one or two plugins??
No evil-mode, no super-bloat spacemacs, just barebone emacs with maybe one or two plugins??
Because some of us would still like to be programming in 20 years' time rather than being crippled by carpal tunnel ;)
I included a smiley, but I'm only half jesting. I tried to use native emacs for a while, but even after remapping caps-lock to ctrl, I was getting weird twinges in my wrist from all the odd angles I was having to go to in order to hit ctrl and meta. I switched back to vim, and the twinges stopped.
I didn't know about evil mode or spacemacs then, otherwise I might have tried to stick with emacs.
Yes it would have been faster and more stable, however then I would just complain about the lack of a bunch of features from Sublime that I like, and the terrible keybindings.
I actually have minor RSI issues, I'm also not keen to turn them into major RSI issues by using Emacs bindings.
What's your view?
Regarding you other point, I think it's the other way around because vim users can't learn a new set of keyboard shortcuts if their life depended on it and that's basically why we have evil mode.
It took me a long time to even consider that new-fangled 'vim' thing.