>>18,19
My point exactly. Vim and Emacs are fucking great editors, each with pros and cons. Either one will suffice for pretty much editing task, making the choice a matter of preference. There is no best text editor.
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Anonymous2007-09-29 19:56 ID:hi2hAl7h
Learning anything other than vi(m) or Emacs is a waste of time. It won't be installed on computers you go to use, and you'll have to learn a new editor in a few years time.
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Anonymous2007-09-29 20:43 ID:WzRy0SH4
Does anyone else suspect that all the Vimfags are just trying to sound elitist? I know Vim, and I use it whenever I need to do some quick edits in the console (unless I know the contents of the file well enough to just jump in with ed), but I don't go around acting like it's anything amazing.
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Anonymous2007-09-29 20:49 ID:WzRy0SH4
>>22
Oh noes, I might have to learn more than one editor! Who doesn't know their way around vi, Emacs, and ed at minimum? Familiarity with other editors is a given, but they're all simple enough that learning them completely is the work of a few hours rather than weeks for Vim and forever for Emacs. The intelligent computer user learns the two you can count on finding everywhere, learns Emacs because it's cool, then proceeds to use Acme because it's the best.
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Anonymous2007-09-29 20:50 ID:FHfbVJFR
Kate. You don't have to learn it. It's intuitive, unlike Emacs and vim. And it's about as powerful — every bit as powerful in KDE 4.
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Anonymous2007-09-29 20:52 ID:WzRy0SH4
>>25 And it's about as powerful — every bit as powerful in KDE 4.
I don't habeeb it.
GNU Emacs. «I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by Richard Stallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devoted to features like mail merge, and the ability to embed feature-length motion pictures in corporate memoranda, were, in the case of emacs, focused with maniacal intensity on the deceptively simple-seeming problem of editing text. If you are a professional writer--i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed--emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.» -- Neal Stephenson on Emacs
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Anonymous2007-09-30 3:29 ID:jssuWRLI
vim fuckin rules
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Anonymous2007-09-30 3:55 ID:dWUfuiHj
vim does not have LISP as its scripting language. THREAD FUCKING OVER?