[H-GEN] Vi (well, Vim) or Emacs (Jove suggested)?

[Edwin Groothuis]

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:30:26PM +1000, Sarah Bernadette Kelly wrote:
> I'm going to take my life in my hands by asking the age-old question -
> should I use a Vi variant or an Emacs variant as my editor?

Use whatever you like most.
I've used Emacs a lot when I was unfamiliar with vi. I used it for
everything: mail, news, editing etc. It was a complete IDE for me.
But then I went to program in perl, sed and awk and suddenly the
way Emacs handled things became too clumsy, I could do these things
in vi within a split-second. The moment I found out that I could
pipe data from vi to external programs I switched.

At this moment I'm using vi for everything (nvi, not vim).
I can do everything in it what I want, except for writing macros.
I know it's possible, but still haven't found out how it works.

But euh... like they said: take the right tool for the right job.
Don't write a C program to parse a textfile, use Perl for that.
And don't use Perl to design a webserver in, use C for that.
And if you like C to parse a textfile, feel free. Same with editors.

Edwin
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