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How Emacs beat vi in the Editor Wars (2020) (trevorjim.com)
3 points by behnamoh on Aug 2, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Granted this seems to be slightly tongue in cheek, but I did wonder more.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Vim,%2Fm...

Granted web searches are not definitive indicators of anything, but they’re at least a data point.


Granted, the article is sarcastic in nature, but...

> We may be waiting a long time for the Emacs of web browsers.

Nevermind that emacs literally has a browser built in since the 1990s.




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