On 3/19/2012 2:58 PM, Joshua Marsh wrote: > On Mar 19, 2012 10:17 AM, "Jonathan Duncan"<[email protected]> > wrote: >> I am pleased to see that Vim is by far the most preferred text editor. > :) Take that Emacs! > > I was surprised by this. I guess I'm a dying breed. I'll have to crack open > a vim book. > Actually, I'm fairly certain this is mostly because vim is much more Sys Admin friendly and we have a mix of those heavier in programmer-centric interests and systems administration-centric interests. It's a mixed bag (though still slightly vim heavy from what polls I've seen) in the programming world, and very one-sided in the admin side. There's lots of reasons for that, mostly availability and unified configurations. For instance, I can't use either vim OR emacs as my programming editor because I have to jump on various servers using logins I share with other people, so I can't customize much of the editor to fit my desires. emacs isn't on all systems, and vi (some variation) is part of the standard, so it's on every system everywhere, even if it's not vim proper. I don't think that's a reflection for or against emacs. It just is what it is.
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