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I just fell in love with Vim after years of TextMate (and BBEdit before and Dreamweaver 3 first). It's powerful, smartly designed, elegant in a weird way… and
by johncoltrane 15y ago
I just fell in love with Vim after years of TextMate (and BBEdit before and Dreamweaver 3 first).
It's powerful, smartly designed, elegant in a weird way… and it works exactly the same on my Ubuntu box at home, on the VPNs I work with and on my Mac at work.
- dfc 15y agoWhy wouldn't the same program work the same way on ubuntu, on your VPNs (I'm assuming you mean the machines you connect over a VPN to) and your mac?
- johncoltrane 15y agoSorry, I mistyped VPS. There are many reasons a program wouldn't work across systems. The primary would be that it is a Mac OS X or Windows-only app (TextMate) or that it needs a GUI, or that it makes too many assumptions about the platform it is running on. Vim works on many (if not all) systems, it can be run with or without a GUI without losing or breaking anything, etc. Obviously, Emacs has all the same pros but I liked Vim more. So Vim for me.