Emacs V.S. vi

[yanom]

vim/gvim users please vote for vi, not Other.

[Monster_user]

Re: Emacs V.S. vi

Trying to stir up the pot a little :P

Vi for the win!

[lcorken]

Re: Emacs V.S. vi

I installed emacs one day. After several hours and half a bottle of brandy I decided Kate works fine for this old man. Maybe I'll pick up another bottle of brandy and try vi. :P
I'll let ya know.
Ken.

[lcorken]

Re: Emacs V.S. vi

Uhhh...OK...Ya.. I get it. It's a joke, and I fell for it!
You guys just want to see who is dumb enough to try one or both of them!
Ha ha ha! Good one! Ya got me good!

I would have to vote for emacs because it has the emacs psychiatrist.
Or I would have to vote for which one I hate the most. Hmm. Have to think about that one.

LOL Ken.

[jayson.rowe]

Re: Emacs V.S. vi

I've never bothered to learn either - I prefer nano.

[Nomad]

Re: Emacs V.S. vi

I still don't understand why any of them is better or faster than Kate or Notepad.

I do use nano for command-line editing (quick sources.list/xorg.conf/whatever changes), and for fixing stuff on my girlfriend's computer over ssh. Isn't it the only one installed by default in Kubuntu?

[Monster_user]

Re: Emacs V.S. vi

No, vim (Vi IMproved.) is also installed. Although, I have never gotten it to work worth editing a *.bat file.

[kubicle]

Re: Emacs V.S. vi

I still don't understand why any of them is better or faster than Kate or Notepad.

For one example, deleting 23 words forward is quite a bit faster by typing d23w (in vim command mode) than by moving your hand to the mouse, selecting the words and deleting.

[daihard]

Re: Emacs V.S. vi

Another vote for vi/vim/gvim.

I work with several different flavours of UNIX/Linux at work. vi is the only editor that's installed on all those systems by default. It is a very convenient editor, too, in that you can do everything you want by standard keys only - no need to extend your finger to the arrow keys or Home/Delete/Insert/PgUp/PgDown. It may take a bit of time to learn how to use vi, but once you're used to it, there's just no other editor for you.

I agree that kate is a fine editor. If only it had a vi plugin so I can use the vi commands on it.

[bmccosar]

Re: Emacs V.S. vi

I think the best feature of Kate is the vertical list of open files. For those of us who like to open a whole pile of them at once, it's perfect.

However, Vim will always win when it comes to sheer number of features.

I guess it's kind of like the difference between a can opener and a laser cannon. Both can open the beans, but only one can blow up the Cylons too. (I believe the command in vi is :%zap )

[Nomad]

Re: Emacs V.S. vi

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