Personally I use Emacs just because modal editing seemed too strange to me. Typing 'i' every time I wanted to type something was annoying, so I just learned Emacs instead.
Please be civil in this discussion about programming. If you wish to troll and be rude, try one of the image boards.
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Anonymous2009-06-16 15:09
>>79 Learn to use both, never can tell what that box you log in to will have.
Every POSIX-like is guaranteed to have vi. If it doesn't have vi, it's more likely to have Notepad than emacs.
Therefore, learn vi and Notepad.
Thou shalt use a proper grammar and of course Emacs ruleth!
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Anonymous2010-02-28 3:10
>>95
If they're feeling futuristic, they can even become Acmers after that.
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Anonymous2010-02-28 4:38
vim is far better for editing code simply because you don't "edit" so much as you write an ad-hoc program to edit the file.
With just a few keystrokes, I can change the name of the function I'm in the middle of editing and return the cursor to the place in the function I was editing it or repeat the last edit I made 30 times.
It takes some getting used to at first because you're not using a text editor, exactly, but it's far better than Emacs which tries to think of text in the form of a story.
You don't write code the same way you write a story and neither should your editor.