Tl dr Emacs is better, though ed is nice too. That being said, this is a subjective topic, but considering the vi/vim majority, I thought I'd add my two cents. I've been happily using emacs, and I can't imagine computing without it.
#Vi vs emacs full#
Then there's all the editting features of emacs: major modes, minor modes, C-h i for all documentation, C-h t for the tutorial, macros, full unicode support, etc. Various Vim features are bolted on, and enabling too many plugins in Vim causes toe stepping between the various plugins. I believe there to be sufficient overlap between the capabilities of each editor to motivate this approach. In contrast, vi was not meant to be added onto. My computer is an emacs machine.Įmacs was made to me programmable from day one.
#Vi vs emacs software#
Because of it's low resource requirements in comparison to other software of the day, it's very light.
You can paste from the clipboard by pressing the middle mouse button. We sell more copies of our vi book than of our emacs book - almost twice as many each year. Press SHIFT-INSERT in insert mode (this means the insert key by the Delete/Home/End keys) To copy to the clipboard using vi in Cygwin: When you select text with your mouse, it automatically gets copied to the clipboard. I can have the same setup on GNU/Linux, BSD, Windows, and MAC OSX. Despite emacs higher profile as a free software poster child, I think more people actually use vi than emacs. Since normal characters like a or are inserted into the file, you have to use abnormal. I don't have to remember keybindings for vim, ncmpcpp, lynx, irssi, etc. Emacs used to be the only editor of the two that was programmable, and while Vim has a lot of weird levels to its programmability, with the addition of Python and Ruby bindings (and more, I forget), Vim is also programmable in most ways you'd care for. Emacs and vi are editors of ASCII (plain text) files. Subsequently, she wrote this column about me and my choice of editor. Almost a month ago, Iambe and I were talking and I casually mentioned that I was reading a book on learning Emacs. All of the programs in emacs are just elisp wrappers around various GNU tools: diff, grep, git, getmail, etc. Don’t care about the preamble Head for the meat. the less command onder those circumstances is superfluous. The idea is to give you enough tools to repair your system without taking too much resources as those resources may be incorrectly configured, or all used up. However, doing this gives you a common environment. You might get vi as an editor or even the smaller ed, but not emacs or vim. To vi/vim users, this sounds insanely stupid and convoluted. I play music, read mail, browse the web, get on irc, play tetris, and edit text. 423 Dislike Share Save WardCo 1.36K subscribers Which is better: Emacs or VI / VIM After 40 years as a professional software developer working with both products, Im happy to. When I need every feature under the sun, I use emacs.
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