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Does anybody still care about the editor wars? Personally, I use vi, but would like to also learn Emacs at some point. I don't see why you can't use both (ther
by hernan7 18y ago
Does anybody still care about the editor wars?
Personally, I use vi, but would like to also learn Emacs at some point. I don't see why you can't use both (there is this "Viper" vi emulation for Emacs, but last time I tried it, it was a little slow).
When working on vim/Windows, I noticed that I rely on the Unix tools for some editing tasks (I run the "fmt" command a lot, for example). I guess this isn't the case with Emacs?
- astine 18y agoIt's not as big a deal anymore, but people still have the discussion. I know that I got involved in one not long ago. As a Vim guy who went and learned Emacs, the best advice I can give you is to try to use vimpulse.el. It's an extension to Viper-Mode and does a really good job of emulating Vim. I never would have gotten used to Emacs without it. It's not slow in my experience but then, maybe you're just more sensitive to that than I am. And no, that would happen with Emacs. Emacs is more of an environment than an editor per-se. You can almost use it as a replacement for bash; certainly as a replacement for screen at any rate.