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As someone who really doesn’t “get” or care for Vim, why should I contribute to an alternate Emacs-“distro” entirely focused on an existing Vi user-base, using non-standard conventions and keybindings?

I mean good for them having that option, but what’s in that thing for me?



You don't have to use vim keys in Spacemacs or Doom. You can just use the regular ones if you want.


But then what does Spacemacs offer me over plain Emacs?

And I’ll also have to learn all the things it does differently. All in all, sounds like a net negative to me.


If you ever start to develop Emacs Pinkie as I did you may come around


Then I can enable evil-mode, instead of fully changing my setup to a unconventional Emacs-distro which does everything differently.

Again: what’s in it for me supporting this alternate Emacs universe?


This is one of the main reasons why I stuck with Vim. The strain on my hands was very noticeable, even as I was just starting to learn the standard Emacs keybindings..




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