[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[James Laver]

On 17 May 2009, at 11:28, Nix wrote:
>
> [1] note: I am not attempting to claim that MACLISP-era Lisp is in any
>    way 'good' except inasmuch as it's better than a hell of a lot of
>    other languages, with particular reference to the horrible
>    TECO-derived line-noise that is the vi macro language; vim is on
>    its way to fixing that, but I doubt you can rewrite the editor in
>    its python or perl extensions

Fundamentally, emacs is a programming language that happens to ship  
with an editor, vi is an editor that happens to include extensions  
that embed other languages.

So emacs will always be more extensible and vi will always be faster.

--James
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