Which is better emacs or vi?

[SwissFluCase]

The original text for the man card was written with vi.

:wq!

SwissFluCase

[Librarian]

Omigosh, my long lost brother!

I think I have my DECUS "GOLD key" button around someplace ...

[deyv]

For me, vi is my go to editor.

-deyv

[locosway]

vim

[bbguns44]

gvim

[Cos]

Oh, no.... Not again - emacs-vi war crawling into Calguns :-( It's not refreshing - it's so old and stale as... well.. as .45 vs 9mm

[grammaton76]

Oh, no.... Not again - emacs-vi war crawling into Calguns :-( It's not refreshing - it's so old and stale as... well.. as .45 vs 9mm

Ok, then let's bring in some less stale wars.

Sig 556 vs FS2000!

Keltec RFB vs FN FNAR!

Crimson Trace vs Lasermax! - wait, that's not a war, that's just an embarrassing smackdown on Lasermax...

[sd_shooter]

I can't believe I'm seeing this thread here!

Anyway, I use vi and GVim.

[gose]

vi for config/scripting, emacs for writing "real" code

[Hans Gruber]

I use vi(m).

[jwest]

You gotta be kidding.

emacs, xemacs, and Epsilon - www.lugaru.com . vi is like using lynx.

[m4rty]

Agreed. emacs or xemacs.

It's just too ingrained in the brain after all these years to switch to vi. Like a few, I started with emacs on BSDi far too long ago and it's always been the go-to editor. Usually about the second or third item installed from port when I build a *bsd box for giggles these days...


.45 is the only pistol round.

[kapache]

nano all the way :-)

[grammaton76]

You gotta be kidding.

emacs, xemacs, and Epsilon - www.lugaru.com . vi is like using lynx.

Yep - Lynx is an awesome way to browse 2A forums in non-2A-friendly workplaces. Don't diss it, particularly since you can ctrl-e, IIRC, in textarea fields to shell out to VI (or $editor_of_choice of course)

Oh wait, that was supposed to be a point AGAINST vi?

[jwest]

I must admit I didn't think of using Lynx for that - or for that matter - even knew Lynx was still around. I think I will try it out to see how many sites it actually still works with.

Kind of analogous to texting when you can simply call....