You can use both!! There is an el package for it.. you can use Xemacs with a VIM mode...
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Evgeny Roubinchtein wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote: > > >What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over > >[x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love it, but would like to hear > >from both sides. > > This isn't as complete an answer as some other posts I've seen, just my > $0.02. > > I am teaching myself Lisp/Scheme now, and, I think (X)Emacs support for > that is tons better than vi's: I love the balanced parenthesis insertion, > deleting, moving by sexps, matching paren highlighting under X, etc. Maybe > there's a way to do those same things in vim, anyone? (I love vi(m) for > not having to break my fingers to type commands; I tried VIPer -- not very > successfully). > > Another big feature I can't think of a way to implement under vim is the > (X)Emacs "inferior processes", such as inferior shell, inferior lisp > process, etc. -- especially inferior lisp. I don't have a very large > monitor, and having things in same window speeds up the inevitable > write-try-rewrite cycle. (maybe vim + screen?). > > But vi(m) is great when you don't have Emacs running (and thus can't use > gnuclient), and just want to quickly edit a file. > > -- > Evgeny Roubinchtein, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ................... > Expert systems are built to embody the knowledge of human experts. - Kulawiec > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
