[TriLUG] vi vs emacs

David McDowell turnpike420 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 23:44:01 EDT 2007


blah blah blah, you thread nazi

On 6/26/07, Jason Faulkner <jason at oldos.org> wrote:
> 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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