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What is true is that Vi and Emacs are deeply tied to the Unix tradition. Whether they are 'antiquated' or whether there are 'better' alternatives is a matter of
by lottin 11y ago
What is true is that Vi and Emacs are deeply tied to the Unix tradition. Whether they are 'antiquated' or whether there are 'better' alternatives is a matter of opinion. Personally I haven't seen any other editor that comes close.
- lispm 11y agoMaybe GNU Emacs, because it was originally written for Unix. Emacs itself came from ITS/Teco. Lisp-based Emacs came from the MIT Lisp Machine (using Lisp Machine Lisp as implementation language) and Multics Emacs (using Maclisp as implementation language).