Vi vs. Emacs? [LWN.net]

Vi vs. Emacs?

Posted Mar 5, 2005 18:30 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Vi vs. Emacs? by ncm
Parent article: A day in the life of emacs

I don't know why anyone would see Emacs and Vi as opposed.

I think it's because so many people, including me, believe they cannot efficently maintain expertise in both. When I first started using Unix, I knew I couldn't afford to learn and keep up with more than one editor, so I looked around and picked the one that most closely met my needs.

Incidentally, it's the same reason I try not to use any program that has its own editor built in. One set of keystrokes is all I can handle.

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Vi vs. Emacs?

Posted Mar 13, 2005 15:10 UTC (Sun) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link]

>[...] many people, including me, believe they cannot efficently
>maintain expertise in both. When I first started using Unix, I knew
>I couldn't afford to learn and keep up with more than one editor
>[...]

Well, expertise. I am an Emacs fan and have used it almost
exclusively for 15 years, yet I am the person in our group people who
has the most vi expertise, and am second in Emacs expertise.

As for learning, when I started with Emacs, I had had two months of
intensive vi use behind me (and missed some vi features in other
editors), yet I was a productive Emacs user (and fan) after one day or
so. My vi knowledge stays with me, though.