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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on March 1, 2012 10:38 pm | by PhilHollenback | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on June 10, 2002 8:21 am | by 66.149.36.88 | Revert |
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!!!Vi
-Know thy enemy
.
+I switched from vi to XEmacs as my primary editor years ago. However, I still find myself using vim all the time, for many reasons. The biggest is probably that it's much quicker to start up than emacs. Also, you can always depend on having some sort of vi on a system, while emacs is still sort of optional
.
-I was once an avid vi user. To prove it
, here's my [.vimrc|ftp
://ftp
.hollenback.net/pub/wiki
/dot-vimrc.txt]
+Thus
, here's my
my [.vimrc|http
://www
.hollenback.net/editors
/dot-vimrc.txt].
-Check out
Ken Bowen's site for much
good [
vi info|http://www.sonic.net/~kpb/geek/viinfo.html]
. Ken used to be a vi user, but I've got him switched to emacs now too.
+Ken Bowen once had a bunch of
good vi info on his site, but it has disappeared
. Probably because
Ken used to be a vi user, but I've got him switched to emacs now too.
[http://www.hollenback.net/images/viman.png]
-ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE: As a person who uses vi exclusively, I hereby declare that emacs is a superior editor. Sure, you can do it all with vi, but who does and why? "When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
+Someone commented:
+
+
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE: As a person who uses vi exclusively, I hereby declare that emacs is a superior editor. Sure, you can do it all with vi, but who does and why? "When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
+
+CategoryGeekStuff
version 7
Vi
I switched from vi to XEmacs as my primary editor years ago. However, I still find myself using vim all the time, for many reasons. The biggest is probably that it's much quicker to start up than emacs. Also, you can always depend on having some sort of vi on a system, while emacs is still sort of optional.
Thus, here's my my .vimrc.
Ken Bowen once had a bunch of good vi info on his site, but it has disappeared. Probably because Ken used to be a vi user, but I've got him switched to emacs now too.
- Someone commented
- ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE: As a person who uses vi exclusively, I hereby declare that emacs is a superior editor. Sure, you can do it all with vi, but who does and why? "When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
