[Sussex] Vi?

[Geoff Teale]

I have seen much written on this.

My advice, try them both, go with the one you prefer.

Neither is hard to learn if you read the docs. 

Neither uses excessive amounts of memory - admittedly vi is slightly 
lighter than emacs, but you get a lot more for your money in emacs.  I'm 
ignoring Jon Fautley's comments, because they seem to bear now relevance to 
the real state of GNU Emacs and are based on the model of using a Sun Sparc 5 
with 4MB or ram... 

A common theme here amongst the responses.. if you plan to never spend more 
than 30 seconds at a time in your editor (i.e you are a slap-dash sysadmin 
dude) vi is the place to be, otherwise Emacs is more comfortable.  Another 
common group of vi users are people who think they are "l33t" and warn you 
to get out of their IRC session before they "0wn" you - reminder using vi 
doesn't make you a UNIX guru.  ;-)

One other note, if your primary needs are programming the  Emacs is great, 
but if you 're used to VB and the like than maybe a look at Eclipse would be 
in order.  http://www.eclipse.org

-- 
Geoff