Vim or Emacs?

Cromulent · 2 Mar 2020 at 22:46

This thread is a joke thread with a serious purpose. I need a full-time IDE on Linux, and I think these two packages might be the ones to use. The other option is Visual Studio Code.

So I want to see the pros and cons of your favourite editor and just for fun the pros and cons of your least favourite editor.

New suggestions are welcome, of course

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opethdisciple · 3 Mar 2020 at 00:07

I use 90% VIM with occasional use of Visual Studio.

Grey M@a · 3 Mar 2020 at 00:10

VS Code when doing terraform, ansible, jinja, yaml work etc as I have multiple tabs and repos on the go at any one time, then its VIM when I am looking about systems or need to edit something on the fly before committing it to code etc.

Woden · 3 Mar 2020 at 00:38

Emacs is installed on many Linux systems by default. Vim is installed by (practically all).

I much prefer vim. But that may be mostly ‘cos I only have 10 fingers

Cromulent · 3 Mar 2020 at 11:15

The thing that I like about Emacs is Emacs Lisp. I like the idea of doing a bit of extension programming and Lisp sounds fun.

Sp00n · 3 Mar 2020 at 15:22

VSCodium

I only use vim to make ad-hoc changes on the cli, don't think I would want to use it as a full time IDE.

peterwalkley · 5 Mar 2020 at 11:38

On unix, vi ... mostly out of habit as that's what I used at university 30 odd years ago.

Most work stuff I'm on windows as a lot of the corporate tools used are internet explorer only and IT only provide desktop support for windows. Nobody wants to attempt to support the stupid numbers of unix desktop platforms around. Some colleagues use unix desktops, but they're on stackoverflow and google for help when it doesn't work.

For an IDE it depends what I'm coding. Generally prefer eclipse for java and jupyter notebooks or pycharm for python - depending on whether I'm doing data science stuff or writing an application.

the only right answer to your question is that you should try a few out and pick what works for you. Its a massively personal choice and anyone telling you that you're wrong is either an idiot or trolling you.

gpuerrilla · 6 Mar 2020 at 00:29

Sp00n said:
VSCodium

Didnt know about this.. thanks!

MrWhippy · 7 Mar 2020 at 10:35

Vim or Emacs?

Seriously!
Are you trying to start a holy war?

Cromulent · 7 Mar 2020 at 11:30

MrWhippy said:
Vim or Emacs?

Seriously!
Are you trying to start a holy war?

I did say in the OP that it was sort of a joke thread

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memyselfandi · 7 Mar 2020 at 13:33

Vi/vim .... none of the systems I have ever used have had emacs installed.

Bluecube · 7 Mar 2020 at 17:48

Nano?

Rainmaker · 9 Mar 2020 at 20:21

MrWhippy said:
Vim or Emacs?

Seriously!
Are you trying to start a holy war?

He doesn't need to try... He already succeeded. :mad:

Bluecube said:
Nano?

GTFO. Vim > * but if you want an 'easier' editor (Vim's pretty darn easy really, and way more powerful) then ee is better than nano imo, though it's more BSD derived and may not be available on your distro of choice.

Mason64 · 22 Mar 2020 at 21:40

why is there hate for nano?

Hades · 28 Mar 2020 at 19:23

vi/vim obviously.

Myfz · 31 Mar 2020 at 09:52

Like peterwalkley, it depends what kind of work.

1. VI/VIM : If I need to update several lines on a server and I'm lazy to download that file.
2. Nano : Small update on a tiny file
3. Visual Studio Code: For the lightweight script
4. PyCharm/Eclipse : Bigger project in python or java.

Also I dunno much shortcut with VIM... but that game might be helpful : https://vim-adventures.com/ :cool: