I’m one of those “I use Emacs but only because of org-mode” people. I’m an associate professor, so I write a lot: research notes, lecture notes, course exercises, academic papers, task management, etc. Org lets me handle all that in an intuitive, plaintext-backed, keyboard-driven way. I haven’t been able to find something equivalent outside of Emacs, and believe me I’ve tried; the closest was Logseq but it doesn’t have the same editor functionality underneath, and orgmode.nvim + org-roam.nvim but there’s just too much missing still (for example, an equivalent to org-cdlatex-mode and a better table mode) and some features are blocked by issues in Vim and NeoVim themselves (e.g. the long-standing unresolved bug when combining “conceal” with soft-wrapped lines, which makes link hiding unusable). So I use Emacs, because this is a huge part of my workday and its best in Emacs.

But I’m really more a Vim guy. I’ve used it since the mid-2000s, still regularly use it, and all the keybindings and workflows just make sense to me. I even like vim9script as a language (I prefer it over Lua, but I do for sure like Elisp better). If it wasn’t for Org-mode I’d still be using Vim full-time.

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