[Chicago] Vim or Emacs

[Clint Laskowski]

Go with Emacs. I've heard the Vim project is shutting down.


On 5/25/08, Feihong Hsu <hsu.feihong at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've decided I need to move to a more powerful text editor. I've
> narrowed my choices down to Vim and Emacs. Personally, I'm used to
> the Vi modal style, having been forced to learn it in high school.
> However, I have a strong need for the editor to be highly extensible,
> meaning I should be able to write fairly sophisticated plugins for
> it.
>
> I know that Vim has python support and so does Emacs (through
> Pymacs). However, after playing around with python in vim, I get the
> impression that I can't bind any callbacks to program events, e.g.
> run something every time the user saves the buffer to disk. It's
> possible that I'm mistaken, as I'm not overly familiar with vim. But
> I'm wondering now if Pymacs or Emacs in general is more extensible
> than vim. Is there anybody who cares to weigh in on this?
>
> Oh, and please don't mention any other text editors. Chances are I've
> already looked at them and rejected them for whatever reason. Right
> now I'm trying to narrow it down between Emacs and Vim, and the one
> criteria I'm really unsure about is extensibility.
>
> Cheers,
> Feihong
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago mailing list
> Chicago at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>


-- 

-- Clint

Clint Laskowski, CISSP
clint.laskowski at gmail.com