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Re:The One True Text Editor by jrockway on Thursday August 06, 2009 @09:20AM (#745374)
It is not for Vi refugees. It works too much like Emacs.

As a hardcore Emacs user, I am seriously tempted by Viper. It is all the good stuff about vi, but without having to use vi (or give up anything in Emacs). I have tried it, and it is not exactly what I want, but it is certainly close. (I have used Vim, and it is everything that I don't want.)

Think of Viper as vi + emacs, where Vim is vi + <something else>. This is why Vim users don't like Viper.

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Re:The One True Text Editor by projecktzero on Thursday August 06, 2009 @10:44AM (#745554)
Many times that I hear about Viper, someone brings up Vimpulse which is supposedly more VIM-like where Viper is vi-like.
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