Vim is better than emacs

http://en.arguman.org/vim-is-better-than-emacs

by edward • 10 years ago

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meeper16• 10 years ago

One of the reasons it's better is that it's slim and you can find it on just about every linux box in the world. Stuck in Borneo with a linux box the local tribe has that not yet connected to the world until you create a script or edit some net config files? Vi is your tool. Emacs? Nowhere to be found.

AimHere• 10 years ago

Isn't vi being superceded by Nano in that regard? It's more or less become the default editor and I suspect that there are now distros that don't ship vi but do ship nano.

qubex• 10 years ago

I rely on pico/nano for all my system administration tasks (but then again, I spent the late eighties/early nineties dealing with MS-DOS' EDIT.COM, so maybe I'm not a noble example a thoroughbred greybeard would want to be associated with).

dkns• 10 years ago

Vi is part of POSIX standard so if your OS is POSIX compliant it should include vi. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

melling• 10 years ago

"The keybindings are not ergonomics at all."

Emacs is an editor construction kit. It can be vi, classic emacs, or something entirely different. vim bindings do feel efficient. I wish someone would take a crack at an even better/efficient editor.

kartD• 10 years ago

Sorry, deleted by accident.

Do these look better to you?

http://spacemacs.org/ https://github.com/google/xi-editor

jdimov9• 10 years ago

Shorter to type, for starters.

andrewstuart22• 10 years ago

Well, except that you probably want to customize your shell to your usage patterns.

    alias v="vim"
    alias e="emacs"

mmrezaie• 10 years ago

or more complete one:

alias e='emacsclient -c -n $opt -a nano'

alias ne='emacsclient -t $opt -a nano'

se() { emacsclient -c -n $opt -a emacs "/sudo::$" }

sne() { emacsclient -t $opt -a emacs "/sudo::$" }

alias vim=emacs #just kidding!!!!

lokedhs• 10 years ago

You only start Emacs once, shortly after your computer has booted, so the length of the command shouldn't matter.

andrewstuart22• 10 years ago

This is a really cool system, but is there some sort of conclusion rollup? Thus far all I can see is that it helps logically organize two sides of a debate, though thus far it's not helping me see how valid the conclusion is.

mimo777• 10 years ago

emacs for editing/coding, vi for systems administration.

pixelbath• 10 years ago

Sorry for being off-topic, but...

These are neat and all, but this is the third arguman.org link I've clicked this week from HN. If we're going to have a healthy discussion/debate about a topic, why not have it here? To me, debates on arguman.org come across as endless one-upsmanship rather than an actual discussion.

Maybe arguman.org posts should be rolled up as "hey, look at this neat argument analysis site" and link to its main page.

Vim is better than emacs

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