XKCD@MIT: On Emacs vs Vi.

[nimitzhunter]

ed.

[AlaskanGenius]

nano and screen!



[marcosmlopes]

VISUAL STUDIO!!! ===========// just kidding

[gomesbascoy]

cat!!!1

[linuxjosef]

nano!!!!!!

[Darthvies]

EMACS!!!!!

[frother]

emacs is ridiculously large and sprawling. keep it simple.

[qwasdninja]

@frother Solving complex stuff takes complex tools. If you cant handle it use notepad.

[cristicbz]

Posting a video with "emacs vs vi" in the title is just asking for a comment flame-war :P

[simoncpu]

@cristicbz nah... it's just a fact that emacs sucks... :D

[PedanticAndWhimsical]

I love him...

[bluesrunthegame]

I don't know why you're acting so superior when you were once shoved head first through someone's vagina.

[24oscar24]

yeahh nice quote

[tetavo]

imo, a magnetized needle and a steady hand are the best programing tools. can we please stop arguing?

[DarkTrunksGeorgeSim]

He's cute O_o

[GenoSkill]

@DarkTrunksGeorgeSim no

[ByT3R]

How about nano... ;P

Just messing with you, VI FTW!

[Ormaaj]

I use nano mostly for editing config files. I couldn't imagine using it as a full-blown editor though. Its like the ms notepad of terminal editors.

[jpkotta]

Before Emacs 23, I would have agreed. But now I have an emacs daemon running so new windows pop up instantly (pre-23 server mode never really did it for me). Also, I can open files as root with Tramp mode (which can also edit remote files via ssh and other protocols).

[Ormaaj]

@jpkotta Vim has a servermode as well but it's switches are kind of annoyingly verbose to use without bash aliasing... and even then it takes some thought to remember to use it. modifying files as root would be super useful too though I haven't looked in to it yet.

I generally use console vim inside screen instead of gvim.

[covidiu]

Vim rules. And so does Vimperator.

:wq

[fnord023]

haha

[colt121987]

M-x viper-mode

ARGUMENT OVER

[phyllodough]

actually in the age of process size and system utilization in the presence of other work, not really.

however it is faster to teach vi to any non-antagonist pre-brainwashed group.

-philip

[Ferkiwi]

In the age of feature-full and extensible software Emacs is much more powerful.

I tried to learn vi before I knew about emacs... but I found vi quite slow to learn and get used to. Mode-dependant typing is not a user-friendly thing. Emacs also has modes, but they dont require you to switch all the time you gotta type or do something. In a lot of vi installations you can't even use the arrow keys.. not user friendly at all.

[amenzix]

I seem to be real misfit in geek circles since I like neat, graphical IDEs, like Eclipse, or NetBeans.

[cristicbz]

Me too :P

[mipmipmipmipmip]

Vi all the way!

Can we please have a typical youtube flamewar on this, please? Would be a nice alternative to the usual Britney vs. Christina flamewars.

[GrimGuzzler]

mipmipmipmipmip WTF are you smoking? Emacs is so much better, with the new regex functions in v22 there is just no way Vi can compare, and thats just the latest addition, Vi has been getting pwned for years by emacs.

Remember you cant spell evil without Vi.

[SgtJcoo]

You also can't spell eat my sac without Emacs. ALso...who wants to use a white background? Gross. I prefer my yank and put to ...well to whatever it is emacs uses for copy paste.  See, I can't even remember, cause I never use Emacs.

[Ferkiwi]

If you never used Emacs you better dont try to give an opinion. It has quite a lot backgrounds (in fact the default emacs-nox is black) and a lot of more options and features than any other editor I've ever seen.