Emacs vs Vi (Was: Re: PostgreSQL in the press again)

Since the history on this was cut off, I would just like to remind
everyone that it was Josh Berkus' idea to start a thread on emacs vs vi
(altho, of course, he did suggest it "tongue in cheek" ... the rest of us
just had to jump onto the bandwagon *grin*) ...

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

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>>>
>>> No one here is silly enough to use emacs ;-)
>>
>>
>> I used to ... fantastic little editor that is, when you have all the right
>> keybindings :)
>
> Yep, nothing like running an operating system on an operating system just so
> you can edit
> a text file ;)

Well, in my case, it was for C programming ... but you are right, it is
"an operating system ontop of an operating system" ... it was good pre
stuff like 'screen', since you could do multi-windows, cut-n-paste between
them, compiling without exiting the editor ... one thing that it did do
nicely was that if you compiled inside of the editor, the 'errors' linked
to the actual code itself, so you could jump right to it ...

Between screen and X though, vi uses less resources, and other then the
'jumping to the buggy code' feature, the rest can be easily duplicated ...

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