[Sussex] Vi?

[Mark Harrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angelo Servini" <Angelo.Servini at claybrook.co.uk>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:36 AM
Subject: [Sussex] Vi?


> Which is better, Vi or Emacs?

Which is better, a Morgan or a Bentley?

> Do they fulfil a similar role or is it worth learning both?

You have it cracked!

Emacs is what you use when you spend a lot of your life editing incredibly
complex stuff and don't have an IDE in which to do it.

Vi is what you use when you need to edit a configuration file, today,
please, and don't feel like waiting for Emacs to load.

TBH, Emacs isn't as bad as all that - the joke was that it used to stand for
"Eight Megabytes And Constant Swapping", but these days, 8 Mb RAM isn't
really that great a deal unless you're running on older hardware.

Regards,

Mark