Serious question, why do people prefer vim or emacs? I understand that they have alot of shortcuts and what not but so do other editor. Just curious. Don't kill me

Real programmers use Sublime.

@AlexDeLarge i use VS Code for frontend web dev and never even touch my mouse. I know vim and code, the shortcuts in vim are less used then the ones in code in my experience.

Sometimes you have to ssh to a server and make code/config changes. Command line editors are just the easiest way to go about editing it. Unless you get that file back to your PC, make an edit on your pretty editor and send it back and overwrite the old file.
Personally, I could never get the hang of vim, never tried Emacs. Nano is the way for me.

@avalanche I am too spoiled by code coloring to get used to this

Because emacs is better, also a lot of emacs key combinations are the same in terminal, or is it the other way around? Anyway... Ctrl+a is the same on both, and a lot more.

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@AlexDeLarge well, no one is perfect, but I only keep saying these things to see the world burn anyway, never had a serious try on vim to have an opinion about it 😂

Well I like it because everything is in the terminal and stuff like vim and tmux is a match made in heaven. The shortcuts are also great and in vim at least, there are plugins that add extra features, which can even create something close to an ide, it's also useful when you don't have a GUI, eg. Connecting to a server via ssh.

@Deim vim, emacs, and some other terminal editors have syntax highlighting.

I like using vim for its modal editing features, plugins, and customization. Also, I can find it installed on almost every *nix system I'll find.