Emacs v/s Vi

[mehulved]

Hearing all about how good emacs and vi are, I recently decided to try them and find out which suits me.
So, I have begun my quest on search for whatever I can find on both of these. I will put it up in this thread as and when I find useful things. So, those who want to try any of the two can refer to them.
If you have anything to put up on this topic sure do - advantages, disadvantages, articles on either/both.

Here's what I have found so far:
*www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/12/04/0326236
*thomer.com//vi/vi.html
*www.splange.freeserve.co.uk/misc/vi.html
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
*www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vi-guide.xml
*gentoo-wiki.com/Vim

I have started with vim a few days back. A nice way to start that I found was

vimtutor

It's a small tutorial which is quite handy to get you started with vi.

 

[freebird]

Diehard Vi fan here though wants to learn emacs

 

[praka123]

me too a Vi fan.but ready for emacs too.BTW @tech future u can add a poll for all the geeks of this section to decide which editor they opts(CLI one).
as u know vi vs emacs was the starter fight longback in FOSS.now also legacy rules :......> GNOME vs kde

 

[Sykora]

The best place for info on vim (nowadays synonymous with vi), is at the vim website itself : *www.vim.org .

More specifically,
*www.vim.org/scripts/index.php -- for scripts, plugins, file type plugins, custom syntax hilighting, and colorschemes. Most of what you'll ever need is here.

*www.vim.org/tips/index.php -- for tips which have been discovered by vim users -- vim has so many features, not many people know about all of them. But you can try. One of the best tips (Actually it's a summary of a large number of other tips) is *www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 .

The vim reference card (one of them) may be found here : *tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vim.html . pdf, dvi, html and tex sources are available.

Last (for now), but certainly not the least, vim's online documentation has _everything_. But it's hard to read through everything. The master help commands are, I think,

:help toc
:help holy-grail

Yes, I am a vim addict , but I do not forsee myself changing to emacs. I've learnt one, and I'm good at it. I don't want to confuse myself. And I don't want to hold Ctrl all the time

 

[mehulved]

sykora thanks. That's quite a lot useful.
Hey where are the emacs users?