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Emacs, or Vim?

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inane:
... :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-

cymon:
the Darwin version doesn't require that.

inane:
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

cymon:
OS X on PPC. It rocks.

piratePenguin:

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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.
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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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