vi or emacs for editing Python on Linux?

[Cliff Wells]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 23:25:32 +0100
"maxm" <maxm at mxm.dk> wrote:

> My understanding is that for emacs I have to use a lisp dialect to
> automate/extend it, and in vim I can use Python as an extension language of
> sort. Do I understand that correctly?

This used to be true, but now there is pymacs which allows you to extend emacs with Python.

Personally I use emacs, but it's more out of habit than anything (I don't know what vim is like but I despise vi - I make too many typos to keep switching back and forth between editing and typing modes).  I suppose whatever you get used to is what you'll like best.  Remember too, that although these two editors are the most common on *nix, there /are/ other options, many of them more "Windows-like".

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