Classic polls: vi or emacs?
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu 18 Jan 2007
| The vi family (vi, vim, elvis, etc) |
   67% | 888 votes |
| The emacs family |
16% | 218 votes |
| Something else |
15% | 209 votes |
| Total 1315 votes |
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For serious editing, (working on code, writing articles, etc), I use emacs exclusively.
But I do use vim as my editor when composing/replying to mail within mutt.
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However - emacs I can use quite a lot of it - vi - just the basics - so for this poll - emacs.
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Vi and emacs are powerful complex tools that are evil to learn. I have used emacs in the past and at work on our AIX antiques I use vi but on any half-modern system I use nano. I took the path of least resistance, learning nano was easy and it does what I want.
I don't doubt that Vi or emacs are powerful and may offer more than nano but I don't need a text editor that much; nano is good enough for config files, xhtml, css, Perl and emails.
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Adam
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I tend to use it also for HTML/CSS/JavaScript, but generally prefer a GUI like gedit which does what everything I need.
I wouldn't mind using emacs or vi but simply do not need their advanced features.
Cheers,
Julien
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Michael
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For things involving typesetting, I use texmacs (which has a lot of key bindings from emacs).
So, strictly speaking, I think I belong to all three choices but I have chosen "The vi family" as my answer!
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That's becouse it is so easy to teach it to do the stuff my way. But usally I don't need to teach it anything. And it suprices me with easy to use integrations (like editing files through ssh or ftp like it are local files, editing files in archives, smooth integration with CVS et al. etc). If I only need tp change one line or so in a config file, I usally use a simple, but fast starting, no good for nothing else editor, like vim or (vi).
Nano is not for me, at all.
But as allways. YMMV.
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I've learned and used vi/vim in the past, but even after getting pretty well accustomed to it, I still found myself sometimes trashing files by accidentally hitting a series of commands (in command mode) when I thought I was in the regular typing mode.
Also, never actually figured out how to handle multiple buffers in vim. In Emacs it's wonderfully easy.
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Vi user.
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vi/vim/elvis for quickness and brevity, emacs for thoroughness and full-featuredness, MCEDIT when using the ncursive MC, pico or nano for more limited easy-to-use editing at the CLI.
MCEDIT reminds me of the old DOS's EDIT (based upon QBASIC).
pico reminds me of the "original" 3rd-party wordprocessor for DOS, WordStar.
Now in the X11-world, there are all the _edit's such as nedit, kedit, gedit... as well as gvim, xemacs, ...etcetera.
nycace36
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For serious work, VIM.
Seriously, VIM got all I need for code editing and more. Besides, it's a productivity dream for touch typists.
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Having said this, I am interested in a poll concerning LaTeX vs DocBook... (Seems like DocBook is getting more of a standard nowadays).
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Having said this, I am interested in a poll concerning LaTeX vs DocBook... (Seems like DocBook is getting more of a standard nowadays).
Oooh. Sounds like an interesting poll. I use Texinfo, so would like to see that in there as well (Plain TeX too!). As for DocBook, I'm not <diagnosis>crazy</diagnosis> about <quantity>all</quantity> those <expletive>darn</expletive> <radians>angle</radians> <delimiter>brackets</delimiter>. Seems way too verbose to read and write in my editor. For those who've never used it, Texinfo source docs look like this.
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In the case of emergency, it's still necessary to know how to use Vi.
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vim rocks
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It's great.
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