vi vs Emacs debate live at GTALUG September 11 !!!

[SlackRat]

* lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) a écrit profondement:
|
| On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:01:54PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote:
| > Interestingly, I often find that I'm more apt with my use of vi than a
| > lot of people; they apparently got used to vim, and when put on a
| > Solaris or AIX box which actually has "Real vi," I know what to do,
| > but they don't...
| > 
| > Actually, I'd like to suggest that it ought NOT be obvious that vim
| > may be counted as an instance of vi...  If it is, then some arguments
| > can be made (that don't favor vi) that cannot be made if it isn't.
| > 
| > I don't find vi and vim to be anywhere near "the same," so it seems to
| > me that it's a valid position to require that this debate either be
| > "Emacs versus vi" or "Emacs versus vim," but not accept the ambiguity
| > of "anything containing vi in its name"...
| 
| Sounds reasonable to me.  vim is certainly the most advanced of all the
| vi style editors.  It is certainly the one I use, and I get annoyed
| trying to deal with other vi clones due to missing things I am used to
| using.  I can edit a file in plain vi but it isn't anywhere near as
| efficient.
| 
| Do the different emacsen have similar issues between each other in terms
| of features you get used to using?
| 

The versions stay mostly compatible.

I find that the thing that irks me the most is the difference between
the CLI and X11 functionality.

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