Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)
You can use both!! There is an el package for it.. you can use Xemacs with
a VIM mode...
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Evgeny Roubinchtein wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote:
>
> >What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over
> >[x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love it, but would like to hear
> >from both sides.
>
> This isn't as complete an answer as some other posts I've seen, just my
> $0.02.
>
> I am teaching myself Lisp/Scheme now, and, I think (X)Emacs support for
> that is tons better than vi's: I love the balanced parenthesis insertion,
> deleting, moving by sexps, matching paren highlighting under X, etc. Maybe
> there's a way to do those same things in vim, anyone? (I love vi(m) for
> not having to break my fingers to type commands; I tried VIPer -- not very
> successfully).
>
> Another big feature I can't think of a way to implement under vim is the
> (X)Emacs "inferior processes", such as inferior shell, inferior lisp
> process, etc. -- especially inferior lisp. I don't have a very large
> monitor, and having things in same window speeds up the inevitable
> write-try-rewrite cycle. (maybe vim + screen?).
>
> But vi(m) is great when you don't have Emacs running (and thus can't use
> gnuclient), and just want to quickly edit a file.
>
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> Evgeny Roubinchtein, eroubinc@u.washington.edu
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