Poll: vi or emacs?

[nd]

Ok, I suppose I get the chance to be lame and do one of these polls for once. Besides, it's so rare that I see holy flamewars in the OT forums for such important topics as these.

 

[Electric Amish]

GVIM RULES! (cuz I'm a wuss)

amish

 

[nd]

Oh yeah, please keep this to UNIX users mostly. I don't want to hear a bunch of "what about notepad?!" complaints. Besides, Windows users can install vim

Pico/Joe/Jed users: sorry.. pick a team

 

[Priit]

Vi, but emacs is "good thing", too

 

[nd]

<< -------------------------
i80286/12Mhz w. 80287 (AMD!!!) co-processor, 1024Kb RAM, floppy drive, no HDD, Trident SVGA video with 512Kb DRAM, 300W PSU. Dos 6.22. Stable as hell. SO WHAT ??? >>


Judging from your sig describing your box, I am not suprised at all in your choice for vi over emacs

 

[denali]

I have a 32k version of vi from an old MKS toolkit that I have on all my DOS boot/emergency disks. At work I use vim because the version of vi that comes with HP-UX won't load big files and does not like long lines. I started programming using e now that is an editor.

 

[br0wn]

do you know that you can use emacs and have a vi mode ?

thus you get the best of both world.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

pico

The only editing i do on unix/linux is small. word processing type stuff I'll do in windows, or Star Office if I ever get my Linux box running again.

so I'm not gonna pick a team. I'll stand on the sidelines.


late.

TDP

 

[nd]

<< do you know that you can use emacs and have a vi mode ?

thus you get the best of both world >>


If you ignore the fact that emacs takes 3 minutes to start up

 

[jonnyGURU]

Between the two; VI. But typically I use KEdit. Just lazy that way.

 

[HigherGround]

emacs all the way, although with the release of free Source Navigator I find myself using that editor more and more ( and emacs does not take three min to start unless you are starting it on a remote machine with a heavy traffic between the execution and display nodes )

 

[vi edit]

you rang

 

[nd]

wow.. emacs is getting killed...

higherground,

I was exagerating.

 

[pac1085]

you should put pico in there

 

[nd]

ICSVortex,

nah.. pico is a whole different class of editor.. i wanted to keep the poll simple. obviously you won't use vi/emacs all the time, so pick one between the two (like jonnyguru).

i use pico sorta in pine when composing mail