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4. All of the above.

Which is Emacs.

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Right, but we are discussing editors here.
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Evil mode is a perfectly reasonable text editor.
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Hold on. Operating systems and long-running esoteric history are always on topic here, right?

(This is spoken with something close to affection; I look fondly on my former Emacs days. I'm probably more likely than not to enjoy the company of a human who has at least tried Emacs and had some thoughtful reaction to it. I may not use it now, but the ideas live on in how I think and what I expect. Editors that push the limits, whatever those limits are, are part of the old school ethos I love about programming.)

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I know, I use Emacs+Evil. I'm going to give Ki a try and, in case of success, to think about writing Ki binding for Emacs.
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emacs already has structural editing packages like combobulate
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This is the first time I've heard about Emacs trying to look nice.
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"Emacs is an editor" is as true as "Toyota Hilux is a gattling gun carrier"
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Vim is Emacs applied to Vi
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Nah. NeoVim a tiny little bit, maybe.
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Not even close.
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How is it not?

Scripting language? Check!

Custom commands? Check!

Windows management? Check!

Build tools integration and error-based navigation? Check!

File manager? Check!

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I think the "Scripting language? Check!" is missing an important distinctions between Emacs and most other extensible editors. The proportion of the code editor features that are written in the configuration/extension language matters

Looking at the Emacs and NeoVim codebases in GitHub: Emacs is 74.6% ELisp or CommonLisp and NeoVim is 71.9% Lua or VimScript. Never mind, NeoVim is close!

But, can you at runtime modify the NeoVim core functions? Honest question because I've only used vim and VimScript was definately limited compared to elisp. If so, then I say NeoVim and Emacs are both highly-extensible editors.

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Operating system? Check or not? :D
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Vim has stopped before that particular threshold. But if ever Neovim get a GUI version, I believe the community will soon have its own Gnus, Eww, and EMMS.
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Exactly the same for me. So far, there have been many challengers but the same champion (subjective, I know).
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I am working on a modal code editor project that you might find interesting then. It also operates on an AST directly, which is represented as UI nodes which closely resemble normal text layout. Email in profile if you’d like to give it a try and possibly give early feedback (still in early development).
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Vim improvement

So Ed Visual Mode Improved Improved!

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