I came here with peace. Let's face it. It's always between
the two. I
respect vim and I learned quite some things in vim. But I'm an emacs
user and I find the original decision between vim and emacs for 'git
commit' unfair.
Git doesn't use vim by default, it uses vi, and it's got nothing to do with
fairness. vi is specified by the POSIX standard, emacs is not. Using vi as the default
when EDITOR is not set is consistent with POSIX utilities like crontab, using emacs is
not.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html
But this isn't about your preference (emacs) or my preference (vim), or what POSIX can
portably assume is present. Fedora can assume nano is present, because Fedora controls
that and already makes it present.