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Poll: programmers/geeks/geek wannbes: Vi or EMACS

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I use both regularly.

Quick viewing, writing very Small files and, editing of files, VI.

Writing large files emacs.
 
Here's a good place to ask this. Does EMACS run on the console (text-only)? If so, how do you start it? I've only seen its GUI.

If EMACS runs only on X, then that's a critical downside for a server machine.
 
Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Here's a good place to ask this. Does EMACS run on the console (text-only)? If so, how do you start it? I've only seen its GUI.

If EMACS runs only on X, then that's a critical downside for a server machine.
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Emacs is most definitely not X-only.

Xemacs is X-only, though. 🙂

I use pico. 😉

Rob
 
Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Here's a good place to ask this. Does EMACS run on the console (text-only)? If so, how do you start it? I've only seen its GUI.

If EMACS runs only on X, then that's a critical downside for a server machine.
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Go to the shell prompt and type emacs (when no gui is running it loads the command line version, when a GUI is running, I believe it loads xemacs).

I use EMACS when running *nix, and use Visual Studio .NET 2003 under Windows.
 
i love vi but its not vapable of editing multiple files simeltaneously

emacs ppl can you do that with emacs?
 
Depends on the OS

DOS: Brief
Windows: Visual Studio, since it emulates Brief
'nix: EMACS. (not that I've done much 'nix in the last decade)
 
i cant believe all you pansies use vi, emacs owns, a guy at work has his linux box boot into emacs rather then the command prompt or x he never leaves emacs for anything, its sick, he even has instant messagneger on it!
 
I've always been a proponent of orthogonality with respect to tools, and this includes the editors I use. I've never been able to find a panacean tool that I could use exclusively, because there are always better independent tools available.

I primarily use UltraEdit, but I use countless other tools/languages to perform other tasks. I mostly use Windows analogs of Unix tools for my CLI stuff.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Interestingly I have no fvcking idea what you're talking about, but I do use visual studio.
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VS does own all. Wait until you see VS.NET "Whidbey" in about a year 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Ameesh
i cant believe all you pansies use vi, emacs owns, a guy at work has his linux box boot into emacs rather then the command prompt or x he never leaves emacs for anything, its sick, he even has instant messagneger on it!
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So at Microsoft they develop on Linux machines? Interesting.
 
Originally posted by: Ameesh
i cant believe all you pansies use vi, emacs owns, a guy at work has his linux box boot into emacs rather then the command prompt or x he never leaves emacs for anything, its sick, he even has instant messagneger on it!
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A guy I used to work with wrote an AIM client for Emacs. I haven't touched emacs in a while, but I figure if I started programming heavily I would probably learn it.
 
Originally posted by: aves2k
Originally posted by: Ameesh
i cant believe all you pansies use vi, emacs owns, a guy at work has his linux box boot into emacs rather then the command prompt or x he never leaves emacs for anything, its sick, he even has instant messagneger on it!
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So at Microsoft they develop on Linux machines? Interesting.
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Although MS has admitted to using Unix machines in the past (and has housed the second largest Mac development team in the world), Ameesh has admitted several times that he has switched jobs.
 
Originally posted by: aves2k
Originally posted by: Ameesh
i cant believe all you pansies use vi, emacs owns, a guy at work has his linux box boot into emacs rather then the command prompt or x he never leaves emacs for anything, its sick, he even has instant messagneger on it!
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So at Microsoft they develop on Linux machines? Interesting.
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hell no. productivity would fall through the floor, switching jobs has given me an appreciation on how tight a ship they run, all the tools that are available to developer at MS beat sh!t out of anything out there that is open source, from profiling tools to debuggers to IDEs to compilers.
 
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