On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:24:42AM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
>
> This is not a question really related to vim, or to Colin's
> message, but ... well, just out of curiosity: how many people
> started using vim as editor just by influence of this list? :-)
> I know I did, because everyone here seemed to use it with great
> success, and maybe others did too :-)
I actually started with Emacs first. I think the tutorial that came with
it is a little better than the one for vim. I also think Emacs has a
slightly more intuitive command set (emphasis on slightly). I started
using vim because with all the different flavors of UNIX I deal with,
vim (vi, actually) was a much more common editor than Emacs. Over time,
I discovered many strange and wonderful things that vim can do. I
especially liked being able to use any tool that can work with stdin and
stdout. To be fair, I don't know how much of the same kind of thing
Emacs is capable of. I still think it's a great editor, but it's
awfully hard to go back ;-)
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