Switching to Emacs

Switching to Emacs

Posted Nov 2, 2006 7:00 UTC (Thu) by jhs (guest, #12429)
Parent article: Pre-testing Emacs 22

The new release seems unlikely to tempt many vi users to make a switch

I don't know about that. For my own part, when I started learning about Linux and Unix, I learned Emacs. At one point, I switched to vim and I use it heavily now. However, I still long for the integrated environments, especially for development. I remember how Emacs had a deeper understanding of my source code, and it made writing code less tedious. I have tried Eclipse and NetBeans, but I don't like their heavy graphical nature.

Maybe it's time I take a look at Emacs again.

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Switching to Emacs

Posted Nov 2, 2006 7:10 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link]

I don't understand the flame wars either. I tried out Gvim this month, but have gone back to Emacs running in viper-mode.

"Viper-mode: for the worst of both worlds!"

Switching to Emacs

Posted Nov 3, 2006 16:47 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] (1 responses)

Perhaps you should give XEmacs a try...

Switching to Emacs

Posted Nov 5, 2006 0:43 UTC (Sun) by ronaldcole (guest, #1462) [Link]

I would second this. XEmacs just handles X better than vanilla Emacs.