[TriLUG] vi vs emacs

[Jason Faulkner]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law

"It is considered poor form to raise arbitrarily such a comparison
with the motive of ending the thread. There is a widely recognized
codicil that any such ulterior-motive invocation of Godwin's Law will
be unsuccessful (this is sometimes referred to as "Quirk's
Exception")."

On 6/26/07, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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