[Chicago] Vim or Emacs

[Samir F]

wow....  a thread about emacs vs vim that didn't turn into a flame war.  I'm
kind of impressed.

my 2 cents.

I prefer vim..but I'm used to vim.. I can make it dance.. far more then
emacs.

I think the learning curve for vim is way higher... you start vim or vi and
you have no clue wtf you're doing or how to even do anything in it.  My
first time with vim.. i type vim, i couldn't figure wtf to do, and I closed
th ssh session.

Emacs, far easier to use.  You can start using like you would use notepad or
nano, and slowly learn things along the way that make it into a more
powerful editior.  I personally can't stand the keybindings...and each time
I try emacs, I tend to wish i could map certain keys to a footpedal or an
extra input.

Either ways, both have their ups and downs, choose the one you like best.

--
Samir

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Feihong Hsu <hsu.feihong at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I've decided I need to move to a more powerful text editor. I've
> > narrowed my choices down to Vim and Emacs. Personally, I'm used to
> > the Vi modal style, having been forced to learn it in high school.
> > However, I have a strong need for the editor to be highly extensible,
> > meaning I should be able to write fairly sophisticated plugins for
> > it.
> >
> > I know that Vim has python support and so does Emacs (through
> > Pymacs). However, after playing around with python in vim, I get the
> > impression that I can't bind any callbacks to program events, e.g.
> > run something every time the user saves the buffer to disk. It's
> > possible that I'm mistaken, as I'm not overly familiar with vim. But
> > I'm wondering now if Pymacs or Emacs in general is more extensible
> > than vim. Is there anybody who cares to weigh in on this?
> >
> > Oh, and please don't mention any other text editors. Chances are I've
> > already looked at them and rejected them for whatever reason. Right
> > now I'm trying to narrow it down between Emacs and Vim, and the one
> > criteria I'm really unsure about is extensibility.
> >
>
> I use vim for over 4 years, with no drawbacks.
>
> Go with vim, syntax coloring, autocomplete, and what else did you need?
>
> http://www.lucasmanual.com/mywiki/#head-8ce19b13e89893059e126b719bebe4ee32fe103c
>
> Lucas
>
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