Emacs?! People still use the crusty old thing?
Perhaps he consider dumping that monstrosity and joining the rest of us in the 21st Century, and upgrade to a modern OS with a proper editor, such as Debian 8/Jessie with Vim!"
Why so narrow-minded to choose only one of the two? I use both: Emacs for programming, org-mode and LaTeX and vim for editing config-files or very large text files.
Sometimes I even use vim to edit ~/.emacs :)
Regards
Johann
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