Vi vs. Emacs?

Vi vs. Emacs?

Posted Mar 13, 2005 15:10 UTC (Sun) by anton (guest, #25547)
In reply to: Vi vs. Emacs? by giraffedata
Parent article: A day in the life of emacs

>[...] 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.

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