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Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hour
by n-gate 8y ago
Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too
Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on this?
2:52 UTC 9-7 vim-emacs
- em-bee 8y agovim (that brings the tally up to 15 for emacs, and 10 for vim)
- n-gate 8y agoVim
- n-gate 8y agoEmacs
- paco3346 8y agonano :P
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoNano just exists to fool my fingers with its quarter implementation of Emacs bindings, and I end up deleting half of the file's contents.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y ago>> I end up deleting half of the file's contents. Are you sure you're not using vim?
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoNah, vim's modal. True, one of those modes is 'break everything', but the other mode is 'beeping furiously', so I generally notice I'm not in emacs pretty quickly.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoBeeping is a feature. The user must be made aware that they are typing in vim, lest they start pressing random key combinations, like C-x, C-m etc. It is well known that users may press these keys by mistake, while falling asleep on their keyboard. Therefore, vim beeps to keep them awake and avoid trouble.
- meatcar 8y agoEvil, best of both worlds :)
- smnplk 8y agoO26 editor
- sooheon 8y agoEmacs + modal editing
- YaxelPerez 8y agohttps://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/ vim all day
- ryanolsonx 8y agovim
- village-idiot 8y agoEmacs.
- ashton314 8y agoemacs
- noobly 8y agoVim is a text editor, emacs is more like an IDE for your OS that works best when lived in. So they aren’t exactly directly comparable. But, +1 for emacs.
- stevekemp 8y agoIndeed I use emacs for all "real" editing, but I use vim for composing emails - in my own console-based mail-client.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoTake a guess.
- nradk 8y agoVim!
- shrimpx 8y agoemacs -nw
- throwaway413 8y agoVim, preferably Neovim.
- earenndil 8y agoVim.
- na85 8y agoemacs
- hollerith 8y ago>makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. Your poll has more selection bias than the SO survey: your poll was seen only by HNers who decided to read comments on a story with "Emacs" in the title.
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- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoCorrect, but given the lingering sense of the two editors being polar opposites, left behind from centuries-past flame wars of the internets, both vim and emacs users are likely to come forward, just to see what the fuss is about.
- ai_ia 8y agoEmacs because of Org Mode.
- pweissbrod 8y agoVim also supports org mode as well. Not quite as nice as emacs but it gets the job done for me
- vvillena 8y agoSyntax highlighting and basic outline support is not orgmode. Orgmode is an agenda, a smart task scheduler, a spaced repetition learning system, a publishing environment, a literate code tool, a knowledge base...
- RBerenguel 8y agoEmacs
- ngcc_hk 8y agoVi - always there
- sulami 8y agoEmacs
- grdvnl 8y agoEmacs
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoVim. Vim's command-line is more alien to the last 4 or 5 gui-bred younger generations of programmers. Learning to master it is therefore more of a badge of hounour, and for that, more sought-after, than learning to master Emacs. Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x
- rauhl 8y ago> Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x Spacemacs sounds like it’d fit your needs to a T. Or doom-emacs.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoThose are Emacs configs and I do prefer vim, just with a different scripting language - but, thanks :)
- u801e 8y ago> Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language Vim does have a scheme language binding such that vimscript can call an embedded script written in scheme, and that scheme script can interface with vim. This is also the case for other languages like perl, python, ruby, tcl, and several other languages.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoLook into Evil.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoThat sounds like a good idea, in general- thank you.
- nabla9 8y agoEmacs (Vi is the God of editors, but Emacs is the editor of Gods.)
- teddyh 8y agoEmacs.
- rauhl 8y agoEmacs. Vi is awesome — it really is — and vim is neat too, but I prefer an entire operating environment. And Lisp. And man-centuries (man-millennia?) of usability improvements.
- em-bee 8y agofor the operating environment i prefer smalltalk. if only it (pharo/squeak) had a better editor.