Editor Wars - Shlomi Fish

From Hackers-IL

Well, I'm not using either vi or emacs. My favourite editing environment is gvim (the Gtk+ version of vim which is a huge extension of vi), with the Windows-emulation mode on, and a bootload of other customizations (some of them per-directory). While it accepts man vi commands, it's a far fetch from being called "vi", partly because I use Windowsish paradigms a lot.

My editor which I don't customize or need to is joe, a nice terminal editor, which I found when I first worked on UNIX after trying pico and Emacs. I saw one of the admins using it, downloaded it and tried it and was hooked. I still have joe instincts and can edit with it in comfort.

For Hebrew editing of HTML files and the such, I'm using kedit, because its bidi support is better than gvim's. It's not a bad editor, but quite limited, and I wish it used File->Exit instead of File->Quit.

I am in great awe of the vi masters. I once saw Guy Keren edit some text with vi in one of the Welcome to Linux lectures and he had a command for every situation. Truly magnificent. Still, it doesn't make too much difference since I spend more time thinking than writing.

I could never get used to Emacs, which may be a shame, because it is a very capable operating system^W^W editor.