[Gllug] vi vs emacs (repeat)

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 9 Mar 2005, Tethys wrote:
>As a serious question, though, what could you want to do in terms
>of editing text that you can do with emacs, but can't do with vi

Nothing, assuming you don't have a broken vendor vi - but the question
is, how _easy_ is it? For example, Emacs's make/debugger integration
is very shiny - it's the good bits of an IDE, without the GUI crap and
the compulsion to use all of a particular toolchain. Nothing to stop
you writing code in vi and running make commands via shell escapes -
later vi* even have TAGS integration - but it's more work.

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