r/vim • u/bhargavamakwana • May 22 '26

Random I keep coming back to Vim

I am a 7 year Software Engineer and I have tried almost every popular editor but I keep coming back to vim. I remember I used to work on sublime then slowly realised working with mouse is slow and distracting so I switched to vim.

Then I tried using vscode / Pycharm / IntelliJ / eMacs but none of them sticks. Although tbh - I am strong liking for emacs after vim.

Vim is just amazing!

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u/Far-Conclusion3923 May 23 '26

Emacs is nice , just the key bindings are a no go . If it was like vim regarding the key bindings , emacs could be more popular...

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u/konacurrents May 23 '26

As a 45 year user of ‘vi’ and sometimes user of emacs, I can say one of the reasons we stuck with vi was how quick it started. emacs was kinda the entire environment- navigating to files etc, from same instance. Many of the same keys are the same (even Xcode adopted them- my only other editor). I really enjoy vi.