Some thoughts on Emacs and Vim

Re:Some thoughts on Emacs and Vim by adam_albrecht on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @08:49PM (#2229307)

I couldn't disagree more. I had the hardest time switching over to Vim because there is such a high learning curve, but once it "clicked", I could never back. Sometimes I'll have to do some .Net work in Visual Studio and I feel like I just switched from a Ferrari to a Corolla.

Now, if you're doing work in compiled languages like Java and C#, the code-completion of Visual Studio and Eclipse is very valuable. But besides that, I'd much rather have a simple and fast editor over a bloated IDE with tons of features.

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Re:Some thoughts on Emacs and Vim by jodrellblank on Thursday February 17, 2011 @12:01AM (#2229839)

You don't use Vim 7 completion?

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/09/visual-walk-through-of...

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Re:Some thoughts on Emacs and Vim by dougws on Thursday February 17, 2011 @01:25AM (#2230041)

I'm a dyed-in-the wool emacs user (and have played with vim quite a bit) but there's really no comparison between the "completion" vim and emacs offer and that provided by IDEs like VS and Eclipse. They do quite a bit of static analysis and do context-sensitive completion which is extremely helpful when the standard library for your language has a ridiculously bloated API (like, for instance, Java and .NET).

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Re:Some thoughts on Emacs and Vim by mbowcock on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @11:48PM (#2229801)

vi emulation in visual studio - https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim

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