Author Topic: Emacs, or Vim? (Read 1845 times)

ReggieMicheals · « **on:** 16 December 2005, 02:06 »

I'm Emacs all the way...

piratePenguin · « **Reply #1 on:** 16 December 2005, 02:11 »

Quote from: ReggieMicheals

I'm Emacs all the way...

w00t!

I predict vim will win the poll (EDIT: whoops, I thought it was just vim and emacs.), it seems to be more popular.
I used to use it all the time (with a bit of gedit and KDevelop.), but then I took the time to learn Emacs and I love it. I still use vim just to change stuff really fast when I'm in a terminal in X (because Emacs would bring up the GUI. I could get around that by running "DISPLAY= emacs" (is there another/better way?), but I don't have a problem with using vim.), that's it.

WMD · « **Reply #2 on:** 16 December 2005, 02:27 »

At a big forum, this poll would be just asking for trouble. :p

I don't program so I'm fine with editors such as TextEdit and GEdit. However, I'd use Vim over Emacs most of the time. The only time I use Emacs is for the Psychaiatrist feature.

skyman8081 · « **Reply #3 on:** 16 December 2005, 02:48 »

Nano/pico.

I like simplicity and intuitiveness.

Aloone_Jonez · « **Reply #4 on:** 16 December 2005, 03:06 »

Notepad 2 & Emacs

MarathoN · « **Reply #5 on:** 16 December 2005, 10:39 »

I have to say Vim, best command line tool I have used so far.

Calum · « **Reply #6 on:** 16 December 2005, 14:38 »

clearly vim, or some type of vi

the reason i say this is you know it will be installed. if i log into a shell account, it's not likely to have emacs on it, but you know vi will be there.

i used to be a real emacs advocate but i have to say for a text editor, vim edits text. it's a steep curve to start with, but so is emacs.

having said that, for beginners, pico and nano are great and so is jmacs and jpico

solemnwarning · « **Reply #7 on:** 16 December 2005, 15:37 »

Kwrite\Kdevelop and nano

worker201 · « **Reply #8 on:** 16 December 2005, 23:08 »

vi*

just because that's what know. To be perfectly honest, I don't think I've ever used any other command-line text editor.

As far as non-commandline stuff, I like gedit, it works for me.

Refalm · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 December 2005, 15:10 »

I actually use nano in console and vim in X for editing HTML or CSS.

mobrien_12 · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 December 2005, 19:42 »

Emacs. Pico/nano are close seconds... but using vi/vim is just a very frustrating experience for me and always has been.

Calum · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 December 2005, 22:10 »

actually (and i know this is pedantic) but vi isn't a command line text editor. ed is a command line text editor, however vi is a text based graphical text editor.

i know it's really pedantic but somehow i couldn't stop myself from mentioning it!

Aloone_Jonez · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 December 2005, 22:19 »

Like edlin which isn't included in MS-DOS 5 to Windows ME but it was re-introduced in Windows 2000 and XP for some reason.

toadlife · « **Reply #13 on:** 19 December 2005, 01:28 »

vi is okay once you get the hang of the basics, but sometimes when I'm doing something really simple, I like the unix "edit", which is simlar to DOS "edit".

hm_murdock · « **Reply #14 on:** 19 December 2005, 02:56 »

Aloone, Edlin was always part of Windows NT.

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