[wlug] Re: Who Needs Modern Emacs?

On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 10:59:16 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:

'And there's also our "arch-nemesis" vim, that's supposedly as "dated" as Emacs, but is extremely popular.'

vi/vim is a text editor, Emacs is an editor. I have successfully used Emacs to edit binary files. It helps to have an editor that does not treat a newline as different from other characters: I can use the same edit/navigation commands to edit/move past them as with any other character.