Which is better emacs or vi?

[repomanNWP]

cat > wow.txt <<EOF
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who needs editors when you never make a typo? ;-) And don't make me try and remember the line editor on Control Data NOS operating systems I used back in college over a 110baud dial-up modem.

[loather]

There are usable editors other than vi?

20 year unix veteran. There simply is nothing else.

[pingpong]

There are usable editors other than vi?

20 year unix veteran. There simply is nothing else.

notepad .

[gunn]

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[Nobama4us]

notepad .

notepad = ^M hell !!!!! thank goodness for dos2unix for all the stuff I get from coworkers written in notepad/wordpad.

[patman]

Sure there is. ed and ex for those terminals that looked like printers with keyboards. I kind of remember what happened when I went to the terminal lab and all the telerays were occupied except for these two available teletypes. Starting up vi didn't work very well.

Vim user here, 25 years of unix . vim gives you vi and ex all in one package! Go argv[]! (so what if vi is usually linked to elvis?) Maybe being able to run bash or other tools while in a vi session is the attracting factor. I also have to say that gvim with the stinking mouse/cursor is annoying. At least we have cygwin.

After all this time, I still can't remember how to exit EMACS without a Kill -9

There are usable editors other than vi?

20 year unix veteran. There simply is nothing else.

[TripleBogey]

Vi, but vim is even better.

[fd15k]

vi is a text editor, while emacs is more like a dev environment with its huge number of plugins. Both are obsolete, and only ignorant
hardcore hackers can still debate which one is better

[danito]

[aileron]

vi all the way. Oh and .460 Roland is better then .45 which is better than 9mm.

This should of been a poll, because I think vi has a strong lead on this board.

[edsel6502]

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

LIbrarian is correct.

EDT FTW. Especially on a VT220 terminal with the off so sweet Select, remove and insert keys.

[7x57]

This should of been a poll, because I think vi has a strong lead on this board.

That's because emacs was linked with MIT/lisp culture, and vi with C/unix culture. Guess which one won? It always amazes me how the more theoretically productive a language is, the less is written in it that I need to run.

I could always start a poll about sendmail/exim/postfix/qmail.

7x57

[locosway]

*cough* Postfix *cough*

[fd15k]

Sendmail is as obsolete as vi qmail is a joke... and postfix vs exim is just a matter of preference

That's because emacs was linked with MIT/lisp culture, and vi with C/unix culture. Guess which one won? It always amazes me how the more theoretically productive a language is, the less is written in it that I need to run.

I could always start a poll about sendmail/exim/postfix/qmail.

7x57

[grammaton76]

Sendmail is as obsolete as vi qmail is a joke... and postfix vs exim is just a matter of preference

Qmail without vpopmail is a joke. Administering postfix is a joke compared with qmailadmin.