[BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] | | http://www.debian-administration.org/polls/89
this is hardly surprising. I use both editors. for most sysadmin tasks I use vi(m). for programming i use Emacs. in part out of old habit (most UNIX systems had vi installed) and partly because vi(m) is faster (which makes it more suitable when you just need to change a couple of lines in a file). for programming I use Emacs since I have a gazillion extensions I use while programming that I don't even think about anymore. from various forms of automated text completion to syntax checking/highlighting, to enforcing style guides, look up symbol relationships, compile, debug etc. so if the context was system administration, I'd vote for vi as well. if the context was programming I'd vote Emacs. -Bjørn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list