Vim or Emacs for software development

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Published on 2010-06-17T20:07:51Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 20:13 UTC
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I'm not trying to start any wars here, just get some good info.

I'm getting a little exhausted using numerous IDE's for development (VS, XCode, Eclipse/Netbeans, and TextMate) and am looking for a replacement I can use on all the different machines I interact with.

What are some of the pros of Vim/Emacs for things like

  • Languages supported
  • Syntax highlighting (for things such as c, objc-c, c#, java, python, haskell, html, javascript, xml etc...)
  • Code completion
  • Code folding
  • Working with a directory of files (like have a solution/project opened)
  • Possible debugger support

What are some of the main things you like about (Emacs/Vim, and please no flames only what you really like)

Thanks =)

*(yes.. I have scoured the net reading this vs that etc. but I'd like more of a 'why you love it' vs 'this is better than that because...')

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