Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong (2010)

Re:Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong (2... by PaulHoule on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:33PM (#5493549)

I switched from emacs to vim because I've found that vim-in-a-terminal-window works better when I'm also using GUI editors. In particular, cut-and-pastes don't get screwed up by continuation characters like they do in emacs.

You can get by with a small subset of commands that are close to what you use in graphical editors. Anything you learn on top of that is gravy.

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Re:Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong (2... by SkyMarshal on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:57PM (#5494874)

Have you tried emacs -nw ? I use vim in terminal windows by default, but have been curious about how emacs's terminal mode compares.

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Re:Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong (2... by pekk on Thursday April 04, 2013 @01:16PM (#5493801)

It's really nice to have the option of terminal or GUI, and the same editor across platforms.

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