vim reference: http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vimqrc.pdf
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 07:36 -0500, Timothy Wood wrote: >> Believe it or not, I have decided that I would be interested in >> learning one of the two. Navigating around from place to place when >> writing does take forever with a GUI. However, I haven't had the time >> to start learning, and I'm not sure whether to learn Vim or Emacs. At >> one point, though, I think I had decided on Vim, and had done some >> googleing for a tutorial, but I wouldn't be able to give you a good >> reason why Vim over Emacs because I know almost nothing of either. > > The biggest advantage to learning Vi is it's the only editor guaranteed > to always be installed on every *nix box. You should at least know the > basics. As long as you're learning the basics, you might as well learn > what makes Vim so magical that people make such a big deal about it. > > Once upon a time, the stereotypical break down was: Vi for sysadmins, > Emacs for developers. These days, though, many developers have moved on > to IDEs. > > Because it is more programmable, Emacs "understands" the contents of a > file so that you can edit at the semantic level. Vim, on the other > handle is more like the love child of a chainsaw and a swiss army knife. > It may not "understand" the file contents, but it gives an incredible > array of tools for editing generic text quickly. If you spend most of > your time editing files with different syntax, Vim is the way to go. If > you spend most of your time editing files with the same syntax, emacs > might be better (but I still prefer Vim). > > -- > "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't > using enough of it." - Chris Maden > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
