On his local machine, he’s strictly an Emacs user and, in fact, embraces the “everything in Emacs” worldview. That’s something I can’t relate to because I consider “pair programming” something that happens to particularly evil programmers when they go to Hell but I’m aware that that may be a minority view so if you like such things, be sure to check out the post. He particularly likes using Vim and Tmux for remote pair programming. Similarly, he uses ED for scripting editing functions on a foreign host. The author usually fires up Vim when he’s on a foreign host because you can be sure it’s going to be installed. The reason that I’m writing about it is that the author uses all three and his post is about when and why he uses each one. Over at Kindness City there’s a post that considers the author’s view and use of Emacs, Vim, and ED. Btw, Viper has an analog of the * key in Vim both using a mouse and a key.If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know that I don’t usually partake in the Editor Wars except in a humorous way, mostly in Red Meat Friday posts such as this one. Viper combines the advantages of Emacs and Vi and lets you use both. Look no further than Viper, the standard emulator of Vi in Emacs. In short, emacs is cool because it does everything, and because you can normally guess or tab complete the name of a function, then bind it to whatever key you like… the online help is good too. On the other hand, each time I’ve tried to use vim as my editor I’ve ran into problems, like tab completion not popping up a directory entry, or it’s bizarre buffering system. I love the power and sheer number of useful things in emacs, but some things about it drive me crazy - why oh why is emacs clone of vis setnu mode so appalling bad? Every editor I’ve ever used has done LineNumbers easily, so why does emacs do it slowly and frequently mess up the numbering? It can’t be that hard. (sigh) I’d love to combine emacs and vim together. “What the heck is a META key? It is what ESC normally is…”įor a serious tip sheet for Vi users, see grok site. “What the heck is a META key? It is what Alt MAYBE is…” “Please, please, let me just change these two lines…” “Escape! ESCAPE! Stop printing ESC at the bottom!” “What! Emacs is the default editor? Abort!” See TheTruePath, AddictedToVi, and EndorsedByAAOS. For example: Emacs has been delivered with a vigorous pamphlet for ed for several years now. You’ve got to see the funny side in a page purportedly advertising Emacs being made up in goodly amount with vi advice. ![]() ![]() ViKeys - Important Emacs commands for Vi users.When you want to go beyond simple text editing, however, Emacs will grow with you. In the end, the slowest link in the chain is usually the user doing the typing. If you want to be really fast about editing text only, then most editors are very similar once the necessary shortcuts and commands have been learned. Emacs gives you an environment where you can do that: coding, writing, compiling, debugging, chatting, web browsing, calendar, diary, todo, address book, blogging, …. With Emacs, you have only one set of keystrokes for text editing that you need to memorize – anywhere and everywhere. Some favorites from the SiteMap: CategoryProgrammerUtils, CategoryGnus, CategoryJournaling, CategoryHypermedia, EmacsLisp, EmacsNiftyTricks#Programming, EmacsNiftyTricks, WhyUseEmacs. There’s an almost religious debate about the pros and cons of Emacs and Vim. Emacs – a holy war! See the Jargon File entry holy-wars.
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