Why do people still use Vi and Emacs?
- by mawg
This is not a subjective question. I am genuinely looking for techinccal reasons to do so.
I will risk offending some folks (not intended as an offence – maybe as a goad) by saying that I have been coding for 30+ years and used to be religously attched to each of them, but as soone as I saw editor-cum-IDE which seemed to offer more, I moved on.
Is there any compelling reason, in this day and age, to choose Vi / Emacs over – say- Eclipse for code editing? Even Notepad++ for win-doze users seems to offer more.
Just sayin'