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The argument for vi is easily made. UNIX devs are constantly diving in and out of directories, grepping, awking, and otherwise spot checking code at the shell
by throwawaysalome 3y ago
The argument for vi is easily made. UNIX devs are constantly diving in
and out of directories, grepping, awking, and otherwise spot checking
code at the shell prompt. A terminal-based editor emulsifies coding and
such command line activities. The argument for emacs is less easily
made, and its dwindling market share evidences that. If you're a black
belt in elisp like I am, all other editors seem unusable. But you're
right. If I hadn't already spent years mastering emacs, I'd likely not
give emacs so much as a look.
- slashdev 3y agoThat's another good argument. Once you've invested the time learning everything about emacs, that's not a barrier to using it anymore, it actually kind of locks you in, since you won't have that level of familiarity in VS code or intellij (and anyway, they're not as friendly to modify.)