[Chicago] Vim or Emacs

[Lukasz Szybalski]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:13 AM, 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.
>

I use vim for over 4 years, with no drawbacks.

Go with vim, syntax coloring, autocomplete, and what else did you need?
http://www.lucasmanual.com/mywiki/#head-8ce19b13e89893059e126b719bebe4ee32fe103c

Lucas


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