Emacs is a text editor at its core, just like vim. The difference is that emacs is extendable. You can write, or install, custom packages for it to make it do damn near anything you ever want, far, far above and beyond just text processing.

Vim is simple and unobtrusive, it has a job and it performs that job and nothing else. It is the purest essence of a text editor. Emacs is an all purpose tool that can be tweaked and changed based on your current or future needs. They appeal to different types of nerds.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I can't understand this chart

If I do it and spent amount of time optimizing it, I can save time? like what?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you do a task daily, and you can shave one second off it, you save 30 minutes in 5 years. So as long as you spend less than that developing whatever tool or technique making it more efficient, you end up saving more time than you spent optimizing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

oh ok, thx

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

i'd definitely be more high-functioning if i followed this chart, but i also really don't want to.