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Re:Learn Emacs in Ten Years by kirubakaran on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @05:26PM (#704650)
'Editing' is just one tiny subset of what Emacs does[1] and vi competes with that part well. But why is vi brought up whenever Emacs is discussed?

[1] Or rather, "empowers you to do"

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Re:Learn Emacs in Ten Years by biotech on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @01:01AM (#705161)
"But why is vi brought up whenever Emacs is discussed?"

Because emacs users and vim users are disjoint, despite having almost everything else in common!

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Re:Learn Emacs in Ten Years by igorgue on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @06:10PM (#704723)
because they're both awesome and we always want to know which one is awesomer!, now please lets not include TextMate in this conversation :)

I'm a VIM user and I always like the cool things Emacs users can do, even though I'll never use Emacs.

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Re:Learn Emacs in Ten Years by yters on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @01:14AM (#705182)
The only editor anyone should ever need is that which the blessed pg provides in these little text boxes.
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