On 13.12.2011, at 11:43, Martin DeMello wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Adrien Haxaire <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Regarding, your question whether this is worth switching from vim to >>> emacs. I've been using both editors for some years and I very much >>> doubt, that "you wouldn't spend much time learning emacs". If you are >>> comfortable with vim, stick with it, unless you are interested in >>> Emacs or one of its really great modes: org and auctex/reftex. >>> >>> Regarding, the vi emulations, I'd say they are nice should you ever >>> be forced to use emacs for some time. But I don't recommend them, I've >>> tried them all. They are not the real thing. Most of them are vi not >>> vim emulators. And they always feel like second class citizens in >>> emacs land. YMMW. >> >> Thanks for your feedback. I've never tried vim so I couldn't tell precisely. >> >> I thought the emulations were nice enough to save time learning emacs. If >> they are second class citizens, I agree it would be wiser to stick with vim >> then. > > yeah, i was assuming the emulations were nice enough to support my vim > habits too. if they aren't, not even a good haskell mode would make > emacs comfortable enough to use given my years of ingrained vim.
I am not saying they are bad, but when I returned to emacs after two years of using vim, I was disappointed by their functionality and especially by the integration between third-party emacs-modes and the vi emulations. Though, I believe there is some work on new vim emulators. I am not sure on their status. They are probably no non-brainer option, yet. What I really liked about Claus Reinke's haskell-mode for vim was the ability to insert update statements with one command. Cheers, Jean _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
