I use vi because that's what I learned after notepad :)

I am currently trying to learn emacs and fumbling along with the basic commands. I think for the things that vi does, its quicker for me to get things done (as can be said for perl) in vi. My fingers don't have to leave the home row whereas in emacs you have to keep reaching over to hit the escape key (I'm sure that could be solved by remapping or something, but I haven't got around to that yet, or what I'd want to remap it to).

So why I'm I learning emacs? Because emacs and vi are not really comparable. Vi is a great text editor, Emacs is (as I understand it) a great development environment.

BTW, I find syntax highlighting distracting even on HTML files where a decent job is done of it, and completely annoying when editing perl.

For another perspective, see this (Hey, I used to use edlin! :).

In reply to Re: Favorite Text Editor? by runrig
in thread Favorite Text Editor? by Rhandom

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