[plug] Discerning minds

[Tim Bowden]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 15:04 +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:48:01PM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 01:32 -0400, bwarff wrote:
> > > vi only comes in one flavour worth eating - vim with python support :)
> > 
> > Even vim without python or any other support beats emacs hands down, and
> > as for those gui things, they don't even begin to make the grade.
> 
> Well, I was an emacs user for a long time, then finally got some of
> the vi/vim commands embedded in my fingertips, and switched to vim.
> But after a while I missed the programmability of emacs, but still
> wanted the speed of the short vim commands, so... switched to viper.
> Viper is vi commands inside emacs, so has the best of both worlds.
> All the emacs C-x and M-x commands still work, and so do most of the
> single keystroke vi commands, with the notable exception of vim's v
> and V, which I have learned to live without.
> 
> Unfortunately viper wasn't a choice of favourite editor on the LCA
> registration.  :(
> 

So if you were forced into a choice of one or the other (vim/emacs)
which would it be?

Tim Bowden