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What do you mean supported by arguments? It's obviously my opinion comparing Emacs to Vim. Vim is excellent at editing text. Really really good at it. Emacs
by parfe 16y ago
What do you mean supported by arguments? It's obviously my opinion comparing Emacs to Vim.
Vim is excellent at editing text. Really really good at it. Emacs is not. It's better than this vanilla comment box in firefox for sure, but compared to Vim's modal editing it's a dog. People injure themselves typing in Emacs. It's actually dangerous!
And my comment was getting votes because people agreed until you came along with your meta comment.
- sprout 16y agoYou are bad at editing text in Emacs. I am bad at editing text in Vim. That really has nothing to do with their intrinsic value.
- bad_user 16y agoOne thing that bugs me in Vim ... Emacs has language-aware indenting rules, Vim does not. Emacs has editing modes that do stuff in the background (like running the interpreter/compiler to check your syntax), Vim does not. In Emacs debugging really works, in Vim I tried in vain to get something working. All these things add up, and Vim may be efficient at copy/pasting/editing plain text, but on the whole I'm a lot more productive in Emacs. Of course, Emacs's learning curve is so bad that sometimes I just wanna' give up and pick something else, like Textmate ... but then when I'm trying Textmate or anything else, I start missing Emacs ... in Emacs you can even undo-changes only on a region for fucks-sake, how can people work with that brain-dead undo functionality in Textmate is well beyond me. It's a curse :)