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'Editing' is just one tiny subset of what Emacs does[1] and vi competes with that part well. But why is vi brought up whenever Emacs is discussed? [1] Or rathe
by kirubakaran 17y ago
'Editing' is just one tiny subset of what Emacs does[1] and vi competes with that part well. But why is vi brought up whenever Emacs is discussed?
[1] Or rather, "empowers you to do"
- igorgue 17y agobecause they're both awesome and we always want to know which one is awesomer!, now please lets not include TextMate in this conversation :) I'm a VIM user and I always like the cool things Emacs users can do, even though I'll never use Emacs.
- yters 17y agoThe only editor anyone should ever need is that which the blessed pg provides in these little text boxes.
- biotech 17y ago"But why is vi brought up whenever Emacs is discussed?" Because emacs users and vim users are disjoint, despite having almost everything else in common!