| James Barrett on 25 Nov 2007 16:14:15 -0000 |
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 03:18:56AM -0500, Brent Saner wrote: snip > (takes deep breath) > okay. > > > > VI(M) or EMACS? snip > okay, it's also out of selfish reasons. i want to mature beyond pico/nano > but my mind isn't made up either way yet. I have not used it enough to give a completely biased assesment, but here goes! VI(M): 1) VIM was already installed on nearly every Linux system I have laid my hands upon (EMACS must be installed separately a lot of times) 2) Since the above is true, that means when I am finished learning it, I will be able to edit files on mostly any *NIX machine I happen to gain access to wihtout the necessity of having to install emacs or nano. 3) After checking a few quick "apt-cache show ..." for vim, vim-common, vim-runtime, emacs22, emacs22-common, etcetc... it seems that Emacs is a lot bigger than VIM. 4) Compared to Pico, there are many fewer memory leaks with VIM... 5) VIM is fast - the name even sounds fast, doesnt it? VIM downsides: 1) It has bee very difficult for me to switch over from nano/emacs to VIM. The UI has some getting used to... 2) Emacs is still my preferred editor for things like HTML or the such where I need to think more about what I'm coding and less about what I need to press to start typing and what i need to press to be able to delete a few characters or move the cursor around... 3) It is quite easy to screw up a config file if you are using VIM and have little experience editing with it. I can remember during my early Linux days (circa January 2004) when I would try to use VIM and end up with a file that has about 40 repeated lines of code, and not know why it happened or how to remove them. 4) If I am not mistaken, emacs has some sort of email reader/writer. I am Not sure if VIM has something like that. 5) AFAIK, VIM Does not run on my blackberry, although neither does EMACS or Nano... (this crapchute of a PDA will be held onto until February, when my service contract is up and I am hopefully getting a Palm with Linux). > and i ask you all because i trust you to be unbiased and > objective and helpful. :) Unbiased? Objective? Surely you jest... I have recently started to take this leap from nano to emacs to VIM. When developing Debiosk I needed to edit files inside the Live environment to do some testing and VIM was all that I had installed (mind you, the ISO is only ~110MB, and I am trying to get that to be even smaller). Disclaimer: This email was composed with nano... Attachment:
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