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Speaking as a longtime vim user, not if you already grok Emacs. The one really good reason I can think of is that vi is pretty much ubiquitous on *nix and might
by donaq 15y ago
Speaking as a longtime vim user, not if you already grok Emacs. The one really good reason I can think of is that vi is pretty much ubiquitous on *nix and might be better suited if you need a powerful editor which you can almost always expect to be there for you even over ssh.
- ez77 15y agoI know this point has been beaten to death, but in that case you only need to know/grok vi, a significantly smaller subset of vim.
- seewhat 15y agoGranted. Under vi(1), the ctags example in the article is a constructive activity. In the case of cscope, one needs to drive a development session from cscope then drop into vi to make edits.