On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 06:37:33PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > Umm... Basically I just made a point to learn enough about both of them. Yeah, me too. > Vim is very cool, and fast, and has great syntax highlighting, and is > perfect for just about everything. But when it came to my thesis using > LaTeX, I figured I needed something with a bit more balls - something > that was written for hard-core document production. So I bit the bullet > and decided to learn EMACS. The main thing I did was to sit down and > work through the tutorial, which was very helpful. I'd still like to explore the LaTeX mode for Emacs, but I've written so many abbreviations for LaTeX now, I'm not sure I need them anymore. > I think the idea of using emacs to emulate vi is a little disturbing, > frankly! It's a bit like sitting on top of a tank and pretending it's a > mountain bike. *laugh* More like pretending it's a hotrod. ;-) I find the keybindings in (X)Emacs way too arthritic for me. I can go much faster in Vi, and then with the features in Vim... Well, it's all I need. The final straw for me was the broken Perl modes. I do too much Perl coding to put up with that. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
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