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Vim vs Emacs - What's the difference?

vim | emacs |

As a verb vim

is .

As a noun emacs is

.

vim

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Ready vitality and vigor.
  • * 1999 , , Stardust , p. 58 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
    • But the youth of today were a pasty lot, with none of the get-up-and-go, none of the vigor and vim that he remembered from the days when he was young…

    Synonyms

    * energy, high spirits, pep

    Derived terms

    * vim and vigor

    Related terms

    * vis

    References

    Anagrams

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    emacs

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (computing) A particular visual or WYSIWYG text editor (first written by Richard Stallman in 1975 but since reimplemented by others in several distinct versions), distinguished by its use of control characters as editing commands, by its lack of distinct "insert" and "edit" modes, and by its featurefulness and extensibility.

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