Andrea Giuliano wrote:
First let me say that I've been using emacs since 1978 so I'm use to using it (I don't need to think about the key bindings I just type the keys).
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* emacs has an ugly key-binding scheme, but tons of documentation, tons of "plugins" for almost every programming language you may think of, and is reasonably fast;
Ugly key bindings? What's wrong with <Ctrl><x><Ctrl><c> ? It much easier than typing <Esc><x>save-buffers-kill-emacs<CR> . :-)
; as vi, you definitely must use it everyday if you want to use it at all: if you stop for a couple of months, you will never remember even which keys must be pressed to open a file...
In emacs it's <Ctrl><x><Ctrl><f>. In vi it's :e whatever_the_filename_is
emacs can be installed to work in a text console, so it is available even i single user mode;
Vi is good to know when memory is limited or over a bad dial up line.
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Some other editors are, gedit (requires X), joe, and elvis. The are a lot more but I don't know them all. I just stick to vi and emacs. I can use either one to offend the others users. :-)
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