Emacs vs. Vim — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Emacs and Vim
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Emacs
Emacs or EMACS (Editor MACroS) is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor".
Vim
Energy; enthusiasm
In his youth he was full of vim and vigour
Emacs
(computing) Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.
Vim
Liveliness or energy; enthusiasm.
Vim
Ready vitality and vigour.
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Vim
Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.
Vim
A healthy capacity for vigorous activity;
Jogging works off my excess energy
He seemed full of vim and vigor
Vim
An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing);
His writing conveys great energy
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