VI vs. Emacs

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I am kind of tempted to learn emacs since I saw that you can make "plugins" for arbitrary packed binary formats.....

― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

ask slashdot.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I wanna know what msp thinks.

― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

emacs >>> vi. that's my opinion. i think it's useful to know rudimentary knowledge of both tho cause you never know when one is more native to a particular network/system than another.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I need to remember to print my vi crib sheet.

― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah... those are handy. shit, i can't even tell you a bunch of them cause i haven't had to use vi in a long time.

emacs has tab complete for commands... that rules.
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

emacs has everything. i only know/use like 2% of features though. fuck a vi.

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Emacs is fugly.

― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

http://almasw.hq.eso.org/almasw/pub/Main/WebHome/vi-emacs-final.jpg

― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

http://images.apple.com/emac/images/index_top.jpg
"eMacs are fugly."

― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cca.org/dave/images/draper-dave.jpg
Ian: Why are we hiding from the police, Dave?
Jon: DUH! Because we use vi, they use Emacs.

― no tech! (ex machina), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

vi, despite the fact that the xkcd guy probably uses it

― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

i use emacs every damn day.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

emacs or xemacs

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

my history, ranked

108 vim
82 hg
58 clear
40 mutt
40 cd
17 ssh
13 rm
13 for
12 backup_research
11 gifsicle

― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2008-04-15/history-meme/

― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

I use an eMac at home. It's cheap and heavy.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

WORK:

126 svn
90 gvim
51 sudo
28 grep
24 vim
21 ls
18 cut
14 symfony
14 php
11 history

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

vi, because emacs is not permitted on STIG-hardened boxen

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

at least in my experience, I'm sure there are plenty of cleared govt aspies who've gone to the trouble of writing up extensive justifications for why they have to be able to use emacs to do their job

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

oh, nevermind dammit.

Older folks who don't understand computers - classic or dud?

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

the rest are funnier

10 find
10 fg
9 rm
8 locate
8 ab
5 tail
4 lynx
4 ln
4 curl
3 watch
3 rsync

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

on my webhost:

322 tail
106 host
29 grep
20 whois
3 zgrep
3 svn
3 lynx
3 find
2 ls

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

on work's production server:

223 rm
136 ls
126 cd
61 tail
52 grep
50 vim
38 fg
32 locate
19 find
18 history
17 man
15 crontab
14 w
14 top
13 ln
13 curl
12 chmod
10 cp
9 host
7 less

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

Tom can't show us his bash history because it is full of NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Of course, nethack is aliased to vim

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Tom can't show us his bash history because it is full of NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS

yeah this is actually true

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

man paste

― badg, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

whoa at output of

zless /var/log/secure*.log* | sudo awk '$7 ~ /failed/ && $9 ~ /auth/ { print $11 }' - | sort | uniq -c | sort

― caek, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

shouldn't that be "gzcat"

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

zless seems to work fine, but yeah, that'll work too.

― caek, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

vi works on anything, therefore win.

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 08:04 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

1412 vim
1379 cd
820 mv
626 dfits
570 hg
546 rm
462 ls
435 mutt
400 cat
380 cp

― caek, Monday, 22 March 2010 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

p.s. vi. fuck you if you disagree.

― caek, Monday, 22 March 2010 23:23 (sixteen years ago)

Sheffield Editor 4 LIFE (not really)

― black jeans stained by (snoball), Monday, 22 March 2010 23:51 (sixteen years ago)

Tom can't show us his bash history because it is full of NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS

yeah this is actually true

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:20 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

Me too :)

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

Not on my home computer I use for ilx, though, obv.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:46 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

M-x server-start and "emacsclient -nw" pwns

― (eval ' (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 01:58 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

after 6years, i've finally given up emacs

R.I.P.

― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:17 (fourteen years ago)

it's the "extensible, customizable editor" but i just felt like i was constantly configuring the damn thing

i really like VIM so far: it's fast and its integration with the terminal is great. though, i'm not yet convinced that the keybindings aren't completely fucktarded

― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:20 (fourteen years ago)

as a side note, can any TextMate users explain how i'd navigate to an arbitrary word in a line and delete word forward? or is TextMate not really about keyboard navigation

― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:26 (fourteen years ago)

p sure textmate is not really about keyboard navigation

― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:30 (fourteen years ago)

vi would be so much better if it wasn't so damn hard to press that escape key, all way out in the corner like that.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 05:02 (fourteen years ago)

Like vim but still can't remember how to have multiple files open at once.

― Zingling Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 05:41 (fourteen years ago)

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