Vim Anti-Patterns

Re:Vim Anti-Patterns by Philipp__ on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:52PM (#12648256)

Haha, you described many things perfectly! But what drove me the most towards emacs despite being suitable for FP, huge amount of tweaking and customizability it provides. And it felt much better doing it in Elisp than Vimscript. Everything has it's good and bad sides, that is normal imho. But really nice comment! :)

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Re:Vim Anti-Patterns by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @08:29PM (#12649167)

Of course.

Although emacs is no more suitable for FP than vi really, other than having better support for some of the functional languages, and for Scheme and CL (which aren't functional, but are often associated with FP, and are sometimes written in that style.

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Re:Vim Anti-Patterns by clifanatic on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:56AM (#12652436)

> Vimscript

I'd go so far as to say that if you _don't_ feel comfortable using vi "out of the box", you probably should steer toward something else - vi is just not customizable like other editors/IDEs are.

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