Fvck vi!
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Yeah man, emacs is wayyyy better. vi makes we want to swallow a grenade.
Are you talking about coding in VI or EMACS or are you talking about compiling the actual text editor proggie?
That's awesome! *geek snort*DamienC said:Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Insert...
Is say :g/emacs/s//vi/g and be done with it. vi ain't bad.
That's not vi if it's color coded. That would be vim, I am guessing.Toshi said:why is emacs better for coding? vi's highlighting worked just fine for me in C, C++, Java, and Lisp... what more can you ask for ?(short of a graphical environment like apple's XCode)
1. Emacs can split its editing window in half, which you could set up a shell-window to run your compilation/test. While it has little value today, it was invaluable in the days of terminals.Toshi said:why is emacs better for coding? vi's highlighting worked just fine for me in C, C++, Java, and Lisp... what more can you ask for ?(short of a graphical environment like apple's XCode
2. Emacs is very customizable. I could set a simple key stroke to insert headers or other text.
3. Emacs automatically flashes the location matching open bracket when you type the closing one, which is extremely important with large logic statements like nested if's.
4. Emacs will indent your text automatically (or later with indent-region), according to the language you are writing in (automatically detected as well) or your own indent style.
5. Emacs is portable.
6. Emacs uses regular expressions as well as interactive queries for search/replace.
Emacs rulz, vi sux.
