Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 8th Jul 2008 15:19 UTC
I find a large number of people around me who have used vim a few times while writing programs. Very few of them have grown into becoming effective vim users. The majority drop out because of its initially daunting interface. A good number of the interested users switch to emacs, because they think the 'power' just isn't there with vim. I am not saying emacs is bad, but I just cannot stand decisions made on lack of information.
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RE: Comment by Bending Unit
by Johann Chua on Wed 9th Jul 2008 10:52
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Learning vi or vim seems to be most useful if you're on a *nix terminal, since the server is bound to at least have vi (emacs is more resource-heavy). I actually have a used copy of the O'Reilly vi book, but I don't use or admin headless servers, so I just use GUI text editors.
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2005-07-06
I once made an effort to learn vim and emacs because if they are so hard to use, they must be superior right?
But now I only use the basics in vim when I have to and avoid emacs. Coding is done in a real IDE and for other tasks I use editors that are both powerful and usable without reading books and tutorials.
Life is too short for vim.