January 14, 2003
A sane opinion on the vi-emacs front

Jason:


For quick changes, or making the same changes to a handful of files and I don't have Emacs up and running, vi is the weapon of choice. vi also seems to be good at very large files.

For long coding sessions where I am in the compile/edit/debug cycle, I prefer Emacs. What do you prefer?

The exact same thing! I do a fair amount of system adminstration (most of it outside of my day job) and emacs just seems horribly silly to load for a script edit. However, for my daily hours of Java programming (as in my day job) vi would never do.. if nothing else (oh, believe me there are plenty of reasons) one cannot write JDE extensions for vi!

Posted January 14, 2003 10:02 PM in Geek Stuff
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On January 15, 2003 06:32 AM Dan Isaacs added:

I still prefer Pico. Seriously.

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On January 15, 2003 06:45 AM [rux] added:

vim .. dont _yuck_ me, but VS.Net is not bad either, if only they have the key-binding like Vim and as lite as Vim .. huh ? You mean I can't run it from an ssh session from the other part of the world ?

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On January 15, 2003 11:40 AM stareja added:

I ust NEdit. Does everything I like from Emacs, but without the bloat and Towers of Hanoi ;-)

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On January 15, 2003 03:52 PM BDKR added:

For Dan: I still prefer Nano. :-)

But seriously, Cooledit or Anjuta. More and more Anjuta as I'm spending more and more time with the QII source.

Cheers

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On January 15, 2003 07:55 PM Matt added:

We could always go back to using TECO...

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On January 16, 2003 06:01 AM neko added:

I don't understand why people don't use an IDE for serious editing. I've used emacs before and I cannot see how that can possibly compare to something like Intellij Idea for java projects.

I really dont' believe in a generalised tool that's supposed to do everything (ala emacs). Vi(m) is, however, a necessary evil for editing remotely.

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On January 16, 2003 04:48 PM Techie2000 added:

For basic edits I like NANO. For bigger things I like Vi(m).

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On January 16, 2003 07:56 PM Dan Isaacs added:

No, VI need never be used. Pico works just fine. And it doesn't sound like R2D2.

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On January 17, 2003 10:58 AM apokalyptik added:

I have to add to the jihad and say that I am a pico/nano fan... i dont like much about vi... and (truth be told) I've never ONCE used emacs (I even had to read up and see how emacs was spelled for pitties sakes...)

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On January 17, 2003 01:47 PM Mark A. Hershberger added:

Emacs. Even for remote files (where I use tramp, which enables emacs to tunnel over ssh and through firewalls).

But, hey, I read my email in emacs, I write in emacs, keep my reminders in my emacs diary. etc.

Emacs isn't an editor, its a way of life.

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