Which is better emacs or vi?

[rp55]

I am so tired and bored by 45 vs 9mm, AR15 vs Mini 14, Glock vs SIG threads that I thought it might prove refreshing to resurrect the one true original argument that never fails to arouse strong feelings. Gentlemen, let's have an old school discussion!

[GSequoia]

I like the eMac but you're talking about some rather old hardware there.

[ocabj]

Both have their inadequacies, but I use vi mainly. I'll use ported emacs (Aquamacs Emacs) under OS X just for some of the coding features.

[Nobama4us]

I may be old, but I go with the flow, give me COLORS vim baby !!!!

http://idorosen.com/images/vim.gif

Mod note: Image is hilarious, but includes profanity - thus it's been "de-inlined".

Not a problem, thanks for keeping the link in place.

[danito]

No question - vi

[rynando]

I like vi as well.

[domokun]

I use vi because it's installed by default on 99% of all machines out there that I end up using.

[Librarian]

I had a friend who claimed vi was 'the only text editor brain dead on all terminals'.

emacs, OTOH, is an operating system that happens to allow you to edit text.

Me? I'm partial to the EDT emulator of VAX/VMS TPU.

[grammaton76]

Speedscript 3.2, with the optional patches! Sadly, no one else I know shares my enthusiasm for 8-bit text editors.

Seriously, wordgrinder is the closest thing I've found to it, and that's a recent discovery.

That having been said, I use vi/vim for pretty much everything.

If emacs were to feel as responsive as memacs did on the Amiga, I probably would've gone that route on Linux. But, it just wasn't.

[Super Spy]

vi

and yes .45ACP is the better round

[bwiese]

I
Me? I'm partial to the EDT emulator of VAX/VMS TPU.

Omigosh, my long lost brother!

[dachan]

Boy that's from a long time ago. I'm partial to EMACS, what I first used when I entered MIT where I think it was developed, written in LISP of all languages. And vi came from Berkeley as part of BSD Unix. I learned vi mostly by playing Rogue. I'm going attribute any vi favoritism on this forum to home field advantage.

[nick]

I mainly use vi/vim, haven't had the need for emacs for ages. Anything ships with vi, anyway, no matter how scaled down it is.

Nice to see someone still remembers LISP...

[dwtt]

vi of course.
I hate using those contrl-x, contrl-c, contrl-whatever in emacs.

[DiscoBayJoe]

emacs all the way!

:%s/emacs/vi/g