Emacs by a Vim User

I have been meaning to pick up emacs and thought of giving it a try. Even for a new user, emacs looks damn cool.I have heard of emacs being a good os and a bad text editor.After a couple of weeks of and on usage I have to agree.Running a terminal, irc client,mail reader,terminal inside a buffer is cool.But if feel I was more productive after using vim for a shorter period of time.

Emacs doesn’t have text objects

My favourite feature in vim are text objects and they instantly justified my effort in learning vim.Text objects together with vim-surround plugin instantly improves your editing speed if you are working with html or xml. Emacs doesn’t have that by default.Installing a plugin for that functionality wasn’t very appealing to me.

Emacsrocks

I happened to watch a couple of videos at emacs rocks and oh was I impressed! Emacs can be efficient as vim but it seems like I need to memorize quite a bit more.I am not giving up hope, may be one day I will get good with emacs.Living inside a text editor doesn’t sound too bad.