Emacs excels at things like bidirectional communications with co-operating processes, which is good for embedding things in (or marrying things to) the editor, like a shell, a REPL or a debugger. You need any of that, Afrotrap?
Vim has a better text editing interface - period. As for Vi - we all know it sucks - but this never was about Vi. --Dwayne On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:21 PM, James Knott <[email protected]>wrote: > David B Teague sr wrote: > >> I don't know about power of Vim >> > http://www.unilever.com/**brands/hygieneandwelbeing/** > aroundthehouse/articles/**cleansolutionsfromvim.aspx<http://www.unilever.com/brands/hygieneandwelbeing/aroundthehouse/articles/cleansolutionsfromvim.aspx> > ;-) > > Actually, it's about what gets the job done. Vi & Vim are on just about > all Linux & Unix systems, whereas, as you mentioned, Emacs has to be > specifically installed. For quick updates to config files etc., as simple > editor, such as Vi(m) is all that's needed. > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > ooo-users-unsubscribe@**incubator.apache.org<[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > ooo-users-help@incubator.**apache.org<[email protected]> > >
