[TriLUG] vi vs emacs

[David McDowell]

you are all nazis!!  :p

On 6/26/07, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:
> Wing D Lizard wrote:
>
> >
> > To me, vi is a text editor -- but emacs is a development tool.  There
> > are extensions
> > to both that allow you to do some pretty complex things, lots of
> > customization.
> > But emacs wins out.
> >
>
> This is kind of what I've heard from emacs users, although I've never
> taken the time to learn emacs myself.  I have used xemacs (which i
> realize is a separate branch) a few times many years ago before gvim was
> around, and liked the syntax highlighting and multiple windows that were
> available then.
>
> I will point out that I've even seen Tanner, one of the more die-hard
> emacs supporters in TriLUG, use vi.  He must have to admit it's a
> necessary evil sometimes, since vi is almost guaranteed to be there, and
> emacs isn't.  That fact pretty much ensures that any *nix sysadmin must
> learn at least the basics of vi.
>
> Right now I'm attempting to teach myself Eclipse but I haven't gotten
> very far.
>
> In reality both vi and emacs are too obscure for beginning users, and
> for Linux to become more mainstream, we need to make sure "WYSIWYG"
> editors like nano are easily available.
>
> --Jeremy
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