On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Jonathan Duncan
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Surprisingly, no mention yet of emacs thinking it is somehow superior to vim.
> Not a bad week so far.
>
If you run M-x doctor in emacs, you will quickly see that emacs has
not yet gained true self-awareness, and therefore it cannot think
itself superior to vim. It is in fact superior to vim in many (but
not quite all, I must admit) ways, though! To start with, it is
largely implemented in Lisp, which is a superior programming language,
and fully exposes the building blocks from which it was implemented as
well as all of its implementation code for manipulation and extension.
In fact, for the times when vim-style editing really would be
superior, you can actually load a mode that will emulate vim within
emacs. You can make it work however you'd like it to work, for the
most part. Plus, the original Emacs command set was created by Guy
Steele, the Great Quux himself. Richard Stallman was the other
primary originator, but I try not to hold that against it, as he was
actually quite the impressive hacker back then.
Anyway, that's your bit of emacs advocacy and trivia for the week. Enjoy!
--Levi
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