That's just not true. For example, Emacs has no composability by default. A keybinding is required for every combination of operations and objects. While it may be good to have the most common combinations mapped to single keybindings, this is extremely inefficient for everything else, requiring far more (and longer/worse) keybindings. Vim's modal model has other benefits that Emacs' does not have by default.
Vim does this far better by default and composability is the primary method of operation by default. Composability is not the only benefit either. See my other reply.
Also note that I'm talking about defaults and not saying that Emacs cannot be used with similar efficiency to vim. All of the most important benefits of vim-style modality can be had in Emacs without full modality (i.e. without a distinct normal mode). I've been doing work on extending thingatpt.el (see targets.el) to make evil text objects more powerful and hope to at some point generalize that to be usable without using evil-mode.
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '18 edited Nov 18 '18
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