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Can we please not have ye olde flamewar here? Not flagging or accusing you of that being the intention btw, just saying...

• davidw 16y ago
  Sometimes, what with all the new things these days, I think it's opportune to remind people that emacs (and... ok, I'll admit it) vim are still there and still great tools.
• SwellJoe 16y ago
  I always say in any text editor flame war (usually one with little kids claiming that they're more productive in their fancy-pants new mousey editor that widgets and icons and zoomy things and little colorful spinny wheels while it thinks about deep texty problems): Editing text is a solved problem. vim or emacs, pick one and get back to work.
  • tomjen3 16y ago
    I used to believe that for a long time, but recently I have been far more productive in an ide than in Emacs. I won't run the same test with vim, because I don't think it will be much different, and the insert/command mode would drive me nuts.
    • dan00 16y ago
      "I used to believe that for a long time, but recently I have been far more productive in an ide than in Emacs." Believe me, then the programming language is the issue, not the editor. It's especially funny, if people claim that their ide is superior, because they can automatically generate boilerplate code, but never question their programming language.
      • tomjen3 16y ago
        It doesn't seem to matter what language it is - the problem is that I can't remember all the valid function/class/type names and what kind of arguments they take. Autogeneration of code is nice when I write Java code, but even Haskell has a bunch of boiler plate import codes, as does Python and Ruby.
        • dan00 16y ago
          Try ctags + omnicompletion Search for: omnicompletion + <language>