Poll: Emacs or VI?

[GL]

Well, what'll it be?

-GL

 

[vi edit]

guess

 

[Locutus of Board]

 

 

[Noriaki]

Anything with "mac" in the name has issues.

Vi owns Ecracs (There is an almost fantaical campaign on Vi vs Emacs at my school sad really but...I'm very much in the Vi camp...)

 

[kranky]

Vi is better, period. But programmers like emacs because, well, they can program it.

 

[Pennstate]

jot

 

[KameLeon]

jove owns j00 all.
I like vi.

 

[Noriaki]

I'm a programmer and I can't stand Emacs...if I want to program something I'll program something. I don't need to have a programmable text editor to my programming in. It just makes things overly complicated. Sort of like this sentence.

Vi is nice and simple. Easy to use, and yet very powerful.

 

[denali]

Real programmers use the father of vi, e.

 

[vec]

I'm a programmer too and I like vi over emacs. My current project is in the winNT environment, but I still used a vi based editor (lemmy).

 

[jsm]

Neither. It's all about PICO!

 

[Zenmervolt]

Pico here too, vi and emacs are overkill for a basic C class.

Zenmervolt

 

[Damaged]

vi or jed.

 

[gittyup]

Without question, VI. The only unix editor!

 

[nd]

vi is never "overkill". that's ignorance. pico is a joke, plain and simple... it was written to have a quick editor for pine. i've NEVER known anyone who took the time to LEARN vi who still preferred to use pico in the end. ever.

 

[jsm]

Not to get into a huge argument, BUT .. I actually have been using both but prefer Pico just because it is really easy to use if I am not doing some crazy editing. Besides, since I do lots of editing in plain text on my windows box using Notepad, it is a really easy move. I like Vi - but I only use it if I absoltely HAVE to (ie: working on a Solaris box). My preference is still Pico for it's ease.

 

[The LIdless Eye]

Bow before the dominance of 'vi'!

(BTW, emacs stands for Escape Meta Alt Control Shift)

 

[bcterps]

Pico 0wN5 j0000

--Ben

 

[GL]

Alright let me put my flamesuit on. I use Emacs as my development environment but I'll never, never, never be able to use it as a quick, down and dirty editor. That spot is held by vi

-GL

 

[Soybomb]

I feel un-1337 for liking pico......

 

[Zenmervolt]

<<i've NEVER known anyone who took the time to LEARN vi who still preferred to use pico in the end. ever.>> Bold added for emphasis.

That is exactly why vi is overkill. I'm not going to bother learning a bunch of special comands for vi if I'm never going to bother with programming in C when the class is finished. Call me lazy but why bother to learn something that I'll never use again when there is a perfectly adequate solution available that I don't have to learn how to use.

Zenmervolt

 

[Heifetz]

For someone that doesn't use the *nix environment to program, what are advantages and benefits of using Vi? I've programmed mostly in windows environment, using JBuilder for java, and other IDEs for other programming languages. What superiority would Vi or any other *nix editor have over those?


Heifetz

 

[GL]

Heifetz,

I can't speak for vi since I only use it and understand it for extremely easy stuff, but as far as emacs goes, it's much more customizable than standard IDEs. You can make it do anything...which...to a programmer can mean a lot of time-saving macros here and there.

...pico...
Don't any of you pico users ever get sick of the stupid line wrapping that pico does? Haven't you edited a config file that wrapped a line of entries that you had to backspace back into place? That's so annoying and that's when I started moving over to the more...ahem...manly text editors We're talking power wheels versus porsches here.

-GL

 

[MC]

PICO :Q

 

[orbadelic]

i agree with the comment that using pico is ignorance, if you ever bother to learn how to use vi (or even icky emacs), you will realize how bad pico really is, hell I have been using vi for a bit now and I never have to even move my hands from the keyboard when editing my code, email or what have you.