[Chicago] Vim or Emacs

[David Terrell]

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(If this is a joke... you need to work on your delivery.)

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:08:37AM -0500, Clint Laskowski wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> -- Clint
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> Clint Laskowski, CISSP
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