Tim Chase wrote: | > No need to argue. I started with vim, and finally switched to | > emacs less than one year later. | | Both are very-much-so good editors. I made the opposite switch | from emacs to vim in less than a year. Both are good^Wgreat | editors, so one's decision to use one over the other is more a | matter of working style. I don't grok LISP, and just never felt | at home in emacs, despite all the power I could see that was | there. I grok vim (and its similar power/extensibility), so I | migrated to it. I have to laugh at the whole holy-war thing, as | it's somewhat like arguing about a favorite color. "But blue is | so better than green! The sky is blue!" "Nuh, uh! Green is far | better than blue! Grass is green!" (okay, here in Texas, that | doesn't always hold as true...maybe personality #2 should be | arguing for brown instead). | | My best friend is an emacs user, and I'm a vimmer...it doesn't | come between us. :)
You guys are not gonna believe this - I keep a low grade PC specially so that I can do my programming with Brief (yes the one by Underware) - and yes I know Emacs has a so called *crisp* emulator - but IMNSHO it sucks! I like the macros, I do some stuff with the macro language, and as a mostly assembler programmer, I adore the way it copies and pastes columns with minimal keystrokes.... And I switch between buffers (different files - "modules" in Python ) - with an alt n or alt - ..... and worse - like the confirmed Vi or Emacs user - the problem is that you get used to it, and ya dont wanna change... - Hendrik I wish I could run this on my Linux box.... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
