The greatest flame war?

UltimaGuy · 02-04-2004, 06:07 AM

Hi guys,

I read somewhere that the greatest flame war was not which OS is best, nor which language is best. It was about which editor was best : Emacs or vi. Is this true? Anyone...

caged · 02-04-2004, 06:16 AM

its good to see there are people in the world who waste more time than i do.

have fun.
Ben

UltimaGuy · 02-04-2004, 07:08 AM

Hahaha...

But this is not an answer to my query :-)

KptnKrill · 02-04-2004, 08:11 AM

nah it's not true, because everyone already knows that vim is better than emacs

williamwbishop · 02-04-2004, 08:20 AM

He's right, there's no war...no one is silly enough to prefer emacs. Big, bloated software is the realm of MS, not unix. Besides, if you have to go to a dozen varieties of *nix to work on them, you will come to love the beast that is VI.

Joey.Dale · 02-04-2004, 08:46 AM

I use emacs for text editing and vim for hex editing

Cruxus · 02-04-2004, 09:17 AM

This is undoubtedly true because, although some people will cling to a bloated text editor for reasons unknown to us logical people, the majority use a text editor that isn't too complicated: vim, nano, or pico.

Melkor · 02-04-2004, 10:08 AM

Somehow emacs got installed on my Slackware setup.

I'm planning on removing it for two reasons:

1) It takes up way too much space
2) I never use it

david_ross · 02-04-2004, 02:35 PM

Take a look at:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=116386

Thymox · 02-04-2004, 07:47 PM

I will put my hands up and say... I admit it. I use emacs.

And yeah, I do believe the 'greatest flame war' was about vi/emacs.

320mb · 02-04-2004, 08:44 PM

ha ha, I found quite a few interesting.....threads, blogs, and other things when I did a google for "flame wars"

there's even a forum out there where flaming is encouraged!! LOL

UltimaGuy · 02-04-2004, 10:40 PM

I have to say to you people that I love Emacs, and don't see anything in Vi/Vim to attract me. That's why I asked this question in the first place, as I never thought people were crazy enough to use vi. :-)

fatman · 02-04-2004, 11:19 PM

I am now kinda bi-editorial.

When I have X support, I use emacs, when I don't its vi.
Emacs seems easier to use for writting C/C++ programs, vi faster for editing config files and the like.

Just my

Kurt M. Weber · 02-04-2004, 11:41 PM

vi, dammit. Anyone who uses anything else is a subhuman socialist scumbag!

david_ross · 02-05-2004, 12:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kurt M. Weber
vi, dammit. Anyone who uses anything else is a subhuman socialist scumbag!

Please try to refrain from posting insults aimed at individuals or groups.

Thanks.