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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
Emacs is a bit flash for me - I've yet to move on from VI. |
Well, to be honest, I myself am
Vim user, but I do use XEmacs very occasionally when I need to use its calc mode.
I was trying to learn XEmacs for several years and I organized a show-off with our resident Vim guru. I wanted to persuade him that XEmacs has more features [important to us, that is] than Vim. The show-off ended with me installing the Vim and never looking back ;-)
In a week I was more efficient doing things I need to do -- mostly Regular expression magic -- in Vim than I ever was using [GNU|X]Emacs.
I can take a freshly compiled Vim with default options and configure it exactly to my liking in 10 minutes. My dotemacs file had several kilobytes collected all over the net and I was still dissatisfied with its behavior.