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Emacs or Vim

Emacs
11 (37.9%)
Vim
11 (37.9%)
DOS edit
1 (3.4%)
other
6 (20.7%)

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Emacs, or Vim?
« on: 16 December 2005, 02:06 »
I'm Emacs all the way...
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« 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.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« 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. ;)
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #3 on: 16 December 2005, 02:48 »
Nano/pico.

I like simplicity and intuitiveness.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #4 on: 16 December 2005, 03:06 »
Notepad 2 & Emacs
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #5 on: 16 December 2005, 10:39 »
I have to say Vim, best command line tool I have used so far. ;)
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« 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
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #7 on: 16 December 2005, 15:37 »
Kwrite\Kdevelop and nano
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« 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.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #9 on: 18 December 2005, 15:10 »
I actually use nano in console and vim in X for editing HTML or CSS.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« 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.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« 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!
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« 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. :D
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« 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".
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #14 on: 19 December 2005, 02:56 »
Aloone, Edlin was always part of Windows NT.
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