Vim VS GNU Emacs

Bram died 2 years ago (already(!!!), time flies!), so it's not so recently...

Also the community does an incredible job and it's quite active with further development and improvements, especially in improving the Vim9 script engine among many things they work on.

If you don't believe me, just see for yourself https://github.com/vim/vim/commits/master/

https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/3608#issuecomment-84907404...

Official site of VIM VIM git repo Here you can download Or refer some YouTube videos

Editors: Helix, NeoVim, Vim, Visual Studio Code

Use a text editor: nano, vim, or graphical editors like VSCode with Bash extensions.

A friend showed me a cool editor named vim and some tricks he did with text on it.

Vim and Neovim

Whereas Visual Studio Code is a text editor whose functionality and performance is aided by extensions. Some of the other notable text editors like Visual Studio Code include Atom, Sublime Text, Vim and Notepad++.

I've been in love with Emacs and Org Mode for over a decade mostly as a user, only writing basic Elisp in my .emacs initialization file. Writing this book made me even more enamored with Emacs as I learned to write a few packages, and spent much time browsing the Org source code, especially around the export engine [1]. It was useful going through one.el source code as well [2]

[1] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/org/o...

show-paren-mode is a well-known minor mode. Enabling it highlights matching opening and closing parentheses. Here’s an example:

While embracing analog tools, I've also refined my digital organization using ORG mode in Emacs. The system has evolved to become more structured and efficient.

Meanwhile, Richard Stallman at MIT took a different path with Emacs in 1985. Where Vi focused on speed and efficiency, Emacs pursued extensibility and customization. These contrasting philosophies - minimal versus expansive - would shape development tools for decades.

GNU Emacs

Unexpected evaluation is never a feature, Emacs should at least warn and prompt before executing code in a file that somebody opens.

What's of greater importance here is not this specific security issue, but the default behavior of MIME handling in Emacs which can turn any unexpected evaluation bug (which we are likely to see more of) into remote code execution. We've had a previous Org security issue in exactly the same vein [1] and the Emacs MIME defaults are still unsafe. Of course, one can change them (non-trivial and related documentation is extremely confusing, see [2] for a possible solution) but really Emacs should not come with these defaults.

[1] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/befa9fcaae29a6c...