Hi, On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 01:19:51AM +0800, Brendon Schumacker wrote: > I use Vim religiously for everything. I used to use Emacs for > everything, and during that time a lot of people would talk about Vi, > so after the curiousity got the better of me I took the time to learn > some Vim commands and eventually got hooked. The reason I can't > escape Vim is because it's so damn fast, lightweight, and after > getting used to it I'd say it has to be the most convenient editor for > those who do some serious coding in any language. I generally need to > make everything I do from scratch, which requires a ton of typing, and > I hate it every time my hands have to leave the keyboard or when my > fingers have to go searching for some oddball key combo.
I went a similar way: uesd Emacs for lots of things, including mail and news reading and even used it to do simple filesystem-related tasks. Then I switched to vim, which was much faster and seemed lighter. Then when I go tserious about Common Lisp and Scheme programming, I went back to Emacs (with Viper mode). It's funny because it doesn't feel like it's slow at all. But I still use vim for other tasks (I'm writing this using mutt+vim). I think different people will have different priorities and preferences, but it seems that those for whom it's very important to be able to quickly interac with the REPL while coding will prefer Emacs (of course there are exceptions). And when I say "interacting", I mean not only "sending code to be evaluated", but also read context-sensitive documentation, inspect Lisp objects on-the-fly and do several other interesting tricks. J. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
