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New guy at work asked which one to learn and two of us nearly came to blows. So: which do you use, and why. Bonus points for reasons other than "it's what I learned first".
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vim. vi is on every box I ssh into, including the Solaris ones, and vim is close enough that my fingers don't care.
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emacs, because M-x compile and jumping straight to errors, gdb inside the editor, and dired. Also twelve years of .emacs that I'm not throwing away.
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retupmoc wrote:
gdb inside the editor
:make and the quickfix list in vim do the compile/jump part. For gdb I use a second xterm, honestly.
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nano. Fight me.
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tnorr wrote:
Learn enough vi to fix a config file on a broken system
Fine, that's the one thing everyone here agrees on. Thread can die now.
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