You have 60 seconds to give me one good reason to use Emacs over Vim
You have 60 seconds to give me one good reason to use Emacs over Vim
There are none.
Right after you give me a reason to use Vim over Emacs
Give me one reason to use any of those...
>sublime masterrace
Why not both? Emacs is a fine operating system, all it's missing is a really good text editor. Vim fills that niche well.
I use nano :^)
Vimtageous ftw
Don't use Emacs. Problem solved.
elisp
Emacs is a pretty good operating system, it just lacks a good text editor.
>Using the smiley with a carat nose
do you guys think you're funny repeating this same shit over and over again?
Both are fine to use, whatever helps you code better.
vi is on most servers if you work with servers at work. So it's helpful to know vi/vim versus emacs in that regard.
Both communities have a lot of plugins. I find emacs has more in the way of plugins.
You should be using Sublime Text 2.
evil mode etc
tetris
towers of hanoi
email
there are actually many people that use an enhanced vi within emacs
sublime is proprietary and mouse-based. go play with the plan 9 retards
Emacs is eight megabytes and constantly swapping
I don't edit text on a microwave oven, so that's not an issue for me.
asynchronous
oh god you're a fucking pleb
+less bloat
+faster
+no carpal tunnel syndrome
- you can't read your emails or browse the internet (with javascript in an upcoming version, I hear) from your text editor
I run Notepad++ under Wine. You have 60 seconds to tell me why I should not do this.
(Protip: NP++ is GPLed)