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Originally Posted by tompe
Religious war on: Everybody nows that Emacs is the best and most powerful editor  |
By the way: Emacs features very fancy Command line as well ;-)
I started to look for a better editor that supports really advanced and complicated Regular Expression Stuff after I had a strong disagreement with the support team for TextPad. I was trying to submit a bugreport about their Regular Expressions Engine.
I tried and tested numerous editors and finally I ended up using Emacs.
For continuation of my story read on ....
<religious war mode>
You do hot have to tell me about Emacs.
I spent several years trying to tame his evil cousin - the XEmacs (by the way, MUCH better reincarnation of Emacs
)
My dotemacs file had many kilobytes, and yet I was still tinkering with it, trying to change the default behavior <rant mode> You need an ugly hack several hundred lines long just to use numpad keys, because The Emacs God - RMS tells us that the top row numbers are much quicker. He does not know that in my language those keys are used for entering "funny" non-english characters </rant mode>
I had installed numerous modes and addons. I use calc mode to this very day if I need to do some fancy computations. (Yes I still use Emacs occasionally - just not for working with text files
)
Have you ever tried the Dismal mode? Brilliant.
One day I was trying to persuade one of our programmers (that works in Vim all day long creating C programs under QNX) to start using Emacs. So I have organized The Great Showoff Event. I have installed the Vim on my computer immediately after that, and a couple of days later I was much more effective using Vim that I was ever using [x]Emacs.
</religious war mode>
A few weeks later I was using Vim to generate complicated Autocad drawings for design of Industrial automnation (PLC wiring schemes) by editing a bunch of DXF files. I was using Vim macros generated by other vim macros from signal tables.