Re: [PLUG] Poll! editors (and possibly me burning at the stake)

[Dan Widyono <dan@widyono.net>]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 03:29:07PM -0500, Brent Saner wrote:
>    James- i've noticed a similar trend; my coding/developer friends tend to
>    use emacs whilst the sysadmin buddies i have tend to use vi.

>    Dan- ditto what chuckk said! i'd love to see what you like and dislike
>    about both; this'd be invaluable as you use both regularly. do you have a
>    preferred editor for certain contexts?

Interesting.  I code and compose e-mail with mutt/emacs and edit system
configs etc. with vi.  The latter because vi always works everywhere I've
needed it.  The former because of the automatic modes (paragraph fill
especially, but I also like having a clock on the status bar :) ).  I can't
say vi doesn't have these features; I only use them in emacs due to
familiarity.

Dan W.

P.S.  For the stupid emacs querying about a final newline, I use this in
.emacs (necessary on redhat-ish systems at least):

(setq inhibit-default-init t)
(setq require-final-newline nil)
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