I use Gedit, but when I get bored using the same vim cheer
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli...@gmail.com > wrote: > 2010/7/18 Roald de Vries <downa...@gmail.com>: > > > > Comparison of VIM and Emacs (what I've read): > > - Emacs is monolithic (does everything, for example includes shell), VIM > is > > unix style (does one thing well, why reproduce the shell?) > > Wrong, all it's features are in separated Emacs' Lisp modules which > can be activated or deactivated at user's will. Emacs provides > different kind of programs to allow user's edit text without exiting > from Emacs, that's why it is nice to have a shell (that without > mentioning the cool features you can develop with a shell interface). > > > - Emacs doesn't have different (confusing) modes, VIM doesn't leave you > with > > a crippled little finger (from all the <C-...>'s) > > For me having two modes is annoying and confusing, I don't mind > hitting modifiers to execute things but that's a personal taste, the > good thing is that if you are a vi(m)'s keybinding dependant person > you can activate viper-mode and Emacs will have the same keybindings > as vi(m). > > > - VIM has more commands than Emacs > > I disagree with that. Just install Emacs, hit M-x apropos-commands and > count them for yourself :). Emacs is a Lisp interpreter with text > editor commands and primitives included into it. So it is a complete > development environment for itself and the GNU/Emacs distribution > comes with batteries-included, it supports by default languages you > probably never heard of. > > > I would say Emacs makes you more productive on shorter term, VIM makes > you > > more productive on longer term. > > > > I disagree with that too, both editors are so advanced that let you > increase your productivity in time to limits you wouldn't imagine. > Emacs is known to be the most extensible of both (that's its > philosophy) so your productivity limit is your imagination, as long as > you willing to learn some Emacs Lisp. > > I'm not sending this email to start a flame on Emacs and Vim. Being a > relatively advanced Emacs user I just like to correct some points > expressed here. > > And to finish I like to mention that I tried myself Vim and Emacs some > years ago when looking for better ways to work, and I stayed with > Emacs mainly because of two things: > * The extension language (I like Lisp). > * I don't like having two editing modes. > > Whatever you choose should be fine, it's just a matter of personal taste. > > > Best Regards, > -- > Fabián E. Gallina > http://www.from-the-cloud.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
