On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote: >What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over >[x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love it, but would like to hear >from both sides.
This isn't as complete an answer as some other posts I've seen, just my $0.02. I am teaching myself Lisp/Scheme now, and, I think (X)Emacs support for that is tons better than vi's: I love the balanced parenthesis insertion, deleting, moving by sexps, matching paren highlighting under X, etc. Maybe there's a way to do those same things in vim, anyone? (I love vi(m) for not having to break my fingers to type commands; I tried VIPer -- not very successfully). Another big feature I can't think of a way to implement under vim is the (X)Emacs "inferior processes", such as inferior shell, inferior lisp process, etc. -- especially inferior lisp. I don't have a very large monitor, and having things in same window speeds up the inevitable write-try-rewrite cycle. (maybe vim + screen?). But vi(m) is great when you don't have Emacs running (and thus can't use gnuclient), and just want to quickly edit a file. -- Evgeny Roubinchtein, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ................... Expert systems are built to embody the knowledge of human experts. - Kulawiec