[Cialug] Fwd: Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% - The vi and Vim vs. Emacs Shootout

[Tim Wilson]

Of course vim will win.  They didn't make it a fair fight.  The emacs book
is more expensive.  Only those true die-hard emacs fans will pay the
premium price.

Emacs gets a bad rap for loading slowly.  Sure, if you're trying to launch
the space shuttle from it, it does take a long time.  But at least you
don't have to waste time getting in and out of command mode just to edit a
text file.

There are times for both.  I usually use emacs, but there are times where I
use vi/vim.  My emacs does load a lot of stuff, so that I can do a lot
more.  So in cases where I need a quick edit, I'll use vi.  But I prefer
emacs for long edit sessions.  I can do WAY more (and faster) in my emacs
setup than I can do in my vi setup.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> wrote:

> Vim will win.  It'll be able to shoot Emacs before Emacs has finished
> loading.
>
> Then, in it's dying breaths, Emacs will attempt to shoot back, make a typo
> and accidentally author a network scanner.
>
> -Josh
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>
>> Which will win?
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