Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

[Paul Seelig <pseelig@mail.Uni-Mainz.de>]

msoulier@storm.ca (Michael P. Soulier) writes:

> On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:16:48AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is there anything like reftex for vim?
> > 
> > i haven't the faintest idea. not much of a tex person, here.
> 
>     I do a lot of LaTeX in Vim. What's reftex?
> 
RefTeX is besides AUCTeX the second best reason to use any kind of
Emacsen for one's LaTeX editing.  The first best reason for it is
AUCTeX... ;-)

I've learned LaTeX a few years ago with vim actually but after having
become aquainted with AUCTeX/RefTeX on (X)Emacs i finally found a
reason to start learning Emacsen stuff and have never looked back.

Just because an (X)Emacs is some sort of Emacsen is no reason to be
excited about it - but add-ons like AUCTeX/RefTeX and so on definitely
are.  So don't count me in as an (X)Emacs user, but an avid user of
AUCTeX/RefTeX, Gnus, and whatever, who actually doesn't really care
about the editor beneath.  ;-)

While i still like and eventually use vi for for quick editing tasks,
i doubt it's even possible to reach that kind of automized high-level
LaTeX support as encountered in AUCTeX/RefTeX under the vi paradigm.

                                   Have fun, P. *8^)
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