On 7 oct, 18:44, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com> wrote: > Being a vi fan, I can just tell you that emacs is for loosers, and no > one will dare to challenge this.
vi is very good for newbees, I recommend it. > vi/emacs is like choosing between the Celtics or the Lakers, there is no > reason for that, the fun part resides in being totally devoted to your > choice :o) > For my part I never switched to emacs cause I was tired of getting > syntax error with ':w' inserted everywhere in my code. Bad habits are > sticky. just use the other symetric part of your brain. > One feature I have that emacs don't is that I'm able to efficiently edit > a file on a remote machine with vim on a terminal (without graphical > interface), and I'm using it. Apart from that, both solutions are emacs has the same efficiency on a terminal. or maybe I don't understand your sentence. > efficient. I would add that inside a company, it is a good idea to use > the same editor as you can share knowledge, macro, plugins and so on. I never used macro with vi or emacs. I shared know-how for vi or emacs. I worked in companies full of talented people, open to new technologies, no issues mixing both editors. and don't speak of UltraEdit yet :) Apart of trolling which is also an activity I like, what are the features vim proposes to Python ? Olivier -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
