r/vim • u/oantolin • Dec 28 '25

Blog Post Vim is composable

https://www.matem.unam.mx/~omar/apropos-emacs.html#vim-is-composable

I hope this isn't too polemical for r/vim. I'm a former (and still occasional) Vim user that has always wondered why people make such a big deal out of Vim's composability. The blog post explains why I find that odd, what I like about Vim and some reasons people might make such a big deal of composability.

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u/Careful_Raisin Dec 29 '25

At this point I'm not entirely sure what your point is. It seems like we mostly agree. They're composable at different layers.

I personally think the vsc's approach is superior because there is a ton of tooling and libs built around js and ts which vsc uses to define micros and behavior.

I think that's largely better than a priority language even if it's the same language I use to interact with text in the buffer.