alt.hn

8/18/2026 at 8:38:13 PM

Vim wants you to control, VSCode wants you to consume

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/vim-wants-you-to-control-vscode-wants-you-to/

by speckx

8/19/2026 at 4:49:54 PM

> Vim gives you incredible programmatic control over the state of the editor.

Emacs gives you control over any text in its computational vicinity - anything on your screen, local and remote machines. But it is the opposite of liberation - it's the yoke you can't ever get rid of. It will outlive any software you find attachment to - browsers, messengers, text readers and editors. Anything text-related will succumb to its power.

by iLemming

8/19/2026 at 2:03:23 PM

I use neovim on NixOS and many others do too. I don't see what one has to do with the other.

by rivetfasten

8/19/2026 at 12:36:05 AM

I've lost all interest in editors. It doesn't matter to me anymore in which one I'm inspecting the clanker output from.

by grim_io