I always hear this and even emacs people reinforce it. Maybe I'm abnormal but I don't do much configuration. My .emacs loads up a few modes specific to certain programming languages I use, that do syntax highlighting and such. There's maybe one or two global keybindings I can type in from memory if I have to, and otherwise I just use the defaults and it's fine.
These are both good points by you and the parent that I never really realized. If you don't 'like' (for lack of a better word) configuration then Vim is definitely the better editor.
I'm indeed the type of guy that carries his config files with him :) (be it on a USB stick, my website, Dropbox, GitHub, etc.)
I use vim for most of my basic editing tasks. I like vim a lot and have been using it for a while, but I use it as a very basic editor. I know I'm missing out on 90%+ of what I could do with vim.
Every once in a while, I crack open vimtutor to fresh up on the basics. I love how vimtutor is in vim and very hands on. Is there an advanced vimtutor that teaches some more cool stuff or does anyone have some other good resources?
It seems like everything the author likes about vim are simply features he found more easily than he did in emacs. Duplicating a line in emacs is not difficult. emacs certainly has macros as well. A few simple google queries or looking in the emacs help system would reveal this very quickly. Not that there is anything wrong with vim, but the criticisms against emacs and other editors just seem lazy.
i use vim and emacs both every day for different purposes. it's my opinion that vim is a better text-editor, but emacs is clearly the more powerful of the two.
in the bitter end for me it comes down to whether or not i can swallow the indentation that emacs wants to shove down my throat for that particular language. for lisp, yes, for javascript, no thanks.
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 41.2 ms ] threadI'm surprised that an emacs user says that macros in vim are "awesome" - they're there and very straightforward to use in Emacs, too.
Emacs has modalities too, but you can't bail out of them by hammering on ESC...
I'm sure I could get comfortable in emacs, but then I'd be one of those guys that has to copy his config files everywhere.
I'm indeed the type of guy that carries his config files with him :) (be it on a USB stick, my website, Dropbox, GitHub, etc.)
Every once in a while, I crack open vimtutor to fresh up on the basics. I love how vimtutor is in vim and very hands on. Is there an advanced vimtutor that teaches some more cool stuff or does anyone have some other good resources?
(1) I've used it more than Emacs and most keybindings are now muscle memory.
(2) Goto (1).
in the bitter end for me it comes down to whether or not i can swallow the indentation that emacs wants to shove down my throat for that particular language. for lisp, yes, for javascript, no thanks.