99% of can emacs do are to be answered by a firm yes, and an additional “it’s built-in since 198*”
That was so much my experience working with enthusiastic vim fanboys - they kept telling me “look at how awesome vim is, it can now do this!”, and I’d say, “er, yes, Emacs has always had that, I’ve been doing that since 1992”.
They literally never came up with something unique to vim, but that never shook in their firm belief that vim was absolutely the best most powerful editor and Emacs was a joke.
well vim has always started with minimal core
but when subtext popped, there were some stuff, I forgot what, but a few ergonomics ideas (like projectile, multiple-cursors, maybe nicer fuzzy search) that weren’t present in emacs. took a few months for someone to make it happen … and that was it.
emacs can absorb most ideas, unless it’s something that would break the whole architecture
I’ve always wondered how many emacs questions are related to multithreading, and now I know. 1%
evil is the recommended vi emulation these days. You could say emacs has *at least* three vi emulation modes.
