Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance

Re:Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance by Diabeetus on Sunday May 15, 2011 @06:04PM (#2550898)

Coincidentally, all the points equally apply to Emacs. Well, except the last one, I guess.

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Re:Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance by wpinbacker on Sunday May 15, 2011 @06:54PM (#2550993)

Exactly. Emacs doesn't need an elaborate case for its defense; non-modal is more natural/easier-to-learn/BETTER (control-this, control-that) than modal. Not merely my 2 cents -- it's the TRUTH!

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Re:Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance by gcr on Sunday May 15, 2011 @10:29PM (#2551408)

Long time vim user here, and I'm considering learning emacs. How do you know it's the truth? And, how did you get started?

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Re:Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance by ams6110 on Sunday May 15, 2011 @10:39PM (#2551427)

I've been using emacs since the 1980s, got started in school because it's the editor one of my early comp. sci. courses used. Tried vi a few times, and I still use it occasionally on systems where emacs is not available (this is one real advantage of vi[m] it tends to be on even the most bare-bones systems), but the separate input and command modes have never really felt natural to me.

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