Comments on: Reconsidering Vim

By: ivan.harden

ivan.harden — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:51:06 +0000

(I’m a long time Vim user who has lately started to play with emacs)

I understand your point of view, and would just like to comment on one point.
You say, “part of this has to do with the BDFL model in Vim. Bram Moolenar has done a tremendous job in bringing Vim to the stage where it is. People can and have forked Vim in the past. But for one reason or another, Vim has stayed Vim, and its development trajectory has been slow and incremental.”

I see no difference between Vim and Emacs/RMS in this respect. Many “fights” have been seen on emacs dev. maillist, and often RMS disregards the opinions of others with “I see it this way. So it shall be.” (literal quote from some I encountered once).

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:46:31 +0000

@Mike: All good points Mike. But the world has room for yet another editor :)

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:45:57 +0000

@siddharth dave: :)

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By: siddharth dave

siddharth dave — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:51:59 +0000

i am sure writing emacs kernel modules & improving its boot time will be fun ;-)

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:16:11 +0000

A few comments about your post. I like EMACS and what it does, that I can easily add to it, I like LISP, and it works very well. What I don’t like is all the multi-finger chording. In VI(M)s favor is that VI exists on every unix system, is small, fast, light, and works over buggy connections. I have used VI for 20 years and take it to any system I work on if it’s not already there. Emacs is great for integration to the OS and the world. VI is great for editing.

By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:24:46 +0000

Will be waiting for your analysis…