[Sussex] A beginner's guide to GNU/Linux

[Geoff Teale]

Andy Smith wrote:
> But vim does all those things also.
>   
Yes (or at least those things named) .  However I imagine it's more 
likely that Nic knows how to do them in emacs and not in vi or vim.

Familiarity is a major factor for those kinds of things - trying to 
convince a devotee of either camp that the other is better is generally 
a pointless task.    There are also a whole class of complex operations 
that are technically possible in vim but are much easier to do in emacs 
because emacs is a full programmable environment , a LISP VM if you 
will.  I'm equally sure there are many things that are easier in vi(m).

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Geoff Teale
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