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vi and emacs (I prefer emacs) are consistent and have been around for years. IDEs come and go with passing of languages, trends, etc. With vi/emacs you have con
by brianobush 17y ago
vi and emacs (I prefer emacs) are consistent and have been around for years. IDEs come and go with passing of languages, trends, etc. With vi/emacs you have consistency and a bug-free editor.
As a side note: I once saw UltraEdit eat a text file my co-worker was editing; once saved as UTF-8 it blew the file away and crashed. Another reason not to use closed-source junk.