🆚 Emacs vs. Vim
- 📈 Vim is three times more popular than Emacs.
- 🌎 Vim is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the Czech Republic.
- 🌍 Emacs is more popular in France.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
EmacsType
HTML editor
HTML editor
About
Emacs is a fully programmable text editor available for most modern operating systems.
Vim is a highly configurable text editor for geeks.
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
gnu.orgPricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
HTML Editors › Rank #37
HTML Editors › Rank #31
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Vim HTML editor is 2.8 times more popular than Emacs.
Total websites
Market share
HTML Editors
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Vim is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the Czech Republic, while Emacs is more popular in France.
Germany
United States
France
Czech Republic
Denmark
Brazil
Poland
United Kingdom
Singapore
Portugal
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Vim is more popular among sites focused on Internet services and education and reference, while Emacs is more commonly used on personal pages sites.
Personal Pages
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Software/Hardware
Technical Information
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Free Software Foundation company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.