[Chicago] Vi or Emacs

[Feihong Hsu]

I'm more used to vim but I haven't used it much for programming. I
tend to use it only in terminals and when using notes. After trying
out vim and also perusing vim's documentation I've determined that it
isn't powerful enough for the kind of extensions I would like to
write. However, I don't consider myself an expert so I figured I'd
post the question here. I thought it was relevant to this mailing
list because after all I'm mostly interested in extending the editor
using Python.

As for Emacs, I haven't used it much and know just enough to quit it
without closing the terminal itself. A long ago I tried it but really
didn't like it. However Cosmin brought up Viper, which sounds
interesting to me. So I think it can't hurt to try out Emacs along
with Pymacs.

Anyway I hope it's clear now that the main question is not which text
editor is better but which has better extensibility with respect to
Python.

--- Jason Rexilius <jason at hostedlabs.com> wrote:

> to quote the age old saying, "emacs is a great operating system,
> its a 
> terrible editor though.."
> 
> I can't say that I've really used emacs but for a brief trial run
> in 98, 
> but I have heard nothing about it that doesn't always circle back
> to how 
> extensible it is.
> 
> The question I think, is how extensible do you need and is doing
> that in 
> vim easier or haredr than re-learning a new way of working?
> 
> I would probably spend some cycles thinking about what you would 
> actually need and seeing how hard that would be to implement in vim
> then 
> comparing that with loss of efficiency in changing editor worlds.
> 
> will send some examples shortly..
> 
> Rob Kapteyn wrote:
> > HE HE ;-)
> > Yes, vi vs. emacs can become an endless heated debate is some
> nerdy groups.
> > *** but this group is not like that ***
> > That's why every ChiPy meeting is "our best ever", and whenever
> new 
> > people show up, they keep coming back.
> > (well -- until they move out of state ;-)
> > -Rob
> > 
> > On May 25, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Mike Kramlich wrote:
> > 
> >> I hereby invoke Godwin's Law.
> >> Yes, yes, Nazi's have not been mentioned yet but I wanted to cut
> to 
> >> the chase. ;)
> >>
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