Before Visual Studio Code arrived, the programming world was already crowded with editors. There was Vim for those who loved the keyboard, Emacs for those who wanted an editor that could become an operating system, Sublime Text for speed, Atom for hackability, Notepad++ on Windows, and countless IDEs for specific languages.

For a long time, it semed to be a taboo to talk positively about emacs and vim in the same sentence. In this post, I am going to show why I love and use both of these traditional Unix text editors on a daily basis.