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Emacs or Vim

Emacs
11 (37.9%)
Vim
11 (37.9%)
DOS edit
1 (3.4%)
other
6 (20.7%)

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cymon

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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #30 on: 13 January 2006, 03:56 »
I love nano, vim is also a great editor. I can't stand emacs. All I really want is a simple text editor, and vim and nano fill that need. I don't need all of emacs' fancy features, if I want to run a word processor, I'll get OpenOffice or iWork going.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #31 on: 21 January 2006, 08:53 »
My favourite editor is notepad2, the syntax and controls are just perfect. with metapath its very nice to use on projects (think kate).

it works with wine but I don't have that on my laptop and so I've been using nedit which is close to perfect.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #32 on: 21 January 2006, 15:31 »
Vi is a pretty good text editor, but not UNIX n00b freindly
eMacs is a pretty good text editor, but not very simplistic.
I haven't tried any other *NIX text editors after using BeOS.

MS-DOS Editor is a pretty good. It can open multiple documents, auto tabs in the next line if you tabbed the current line. Easy to use GUI-like interface without the need to memorise any commands. Easy to the n00b. Probably one of the best editors if you're using windows/DOS and could care less about syntax hilighting. Sure, MS Edit is similar to notepad, but has many more features.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #33 on: 21 January 2006, 15:57 »
I don't know if I agree, MS-DOS Edit is shit because it doesn't support the UNIX format and it's worse than notepad because you can't drag and drop text, word wrap or load large files. I actually quite like Gedit which comes with Gnome, it's both fast and simple.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #34 on: 21 January 2006, 17:01 »
Opinion is opinion, thats what polls are usually for...
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #35 on: 21 January 2006, 19:29 »
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I don't know if I agree, MS-DOS Edit is shit because it doesn't support the UNIX format

Incorrect, from what I've seen.
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you can't drag and drop text,

You can Copy/Paste, though.
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word wrap

Darn....
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or load large files.

Yes it can.  At least starting with Windows 95.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #36 on: 21 January 2006, 20:24 »
I was wrong about it not being compatable with UNIX, just just assumed it wasn't compatable as there's no "save in UNIX format" option.

However it does limit of 65,280 lines.



Windows XP notepad doesn't have this problem, anyway Notepad2 is my favourite Windows text editor. For MS-DOS which I only use in emulation ntvdm, DOXBox or DOSEmu I use FreeDOS Edit as it's convenient to acces via the DOS commandline.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #37 on: 22 January 2006, 02:04 »
The first program I add to any Windows installation I have to use is EditPad Lite.  As far as graphical text editors go, that one is pretty awesome.  And, it's postcard-ware.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #38 on: 28 January 2006, 15:56 »
VI is teh fucking DEVIL incarnate! -i- What the hell?!
I have to press "I" to begin a session and 'insert'?!?! EXCUSE ME?! What in God's name is up with that?

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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #39 on: 28 January 2006, 17:19 »
no, you don't have to, you can just start typing. And that's better than some random metakey combination?
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #40 on: 28 January 2006, 17:38 »
... :confused: you can just start typing in vi??? How? I always have had to press the "i" key before I could edit anything -for example my fstab in the last Slack system I installed-
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #41 on: 28 January 2006, 17:46 »
the Darwin version doesn't require that.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #42 on: 28 January 2006, 17:51 »
Are you running Darwin/GNU or just OS X?... If you're running Darwin/GNU are you running it on x86 architecture? If you are how is it? hehe
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #43 on: 28 January 2006, 18:16 »
OS X on PPC. It rocks.
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Re: Emacs, or Vim?
« Reply #44 on: 20 January 2007, 20:21 »
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w00t!

I predict vim will win the poll (EDIT: whoops, I thought it was just vim and emacs.), it seems to be more popular.
I used to use it all the time (with a bit of gedit and KDevelop.), but then I took the time to learn Emacs and I love it. I still use vim just to change stuff really fast when I'm in a terminal in X (because Emacs would bring up the GUI. I could get around that by running "DISPLAY= emacs" (is there another/better way?), but I don't have a problem with using vim.), that's it.
Oh, I don't use emacs anymore. It's a fine text editor if you keep using it. I used it while I was learning it, and loved it, but now I could hardly make my way around it. Heh. I don't use text-based editors much at all, and vim works just as well and is easy to learn, and remember (the basic functionality anyhow).

I do my programming in the KDE kate, and I really, really love it. I'm finally getting to appreciate it's split-window functionality, and it's all just goddamn brilliant. screenshot
It's kinda like emacs, but I can sing praises for it without having the manual open..
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