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    Emacs or Vim

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by taelrak, Aug 11, 2007.

  1. taelrak

    taelrak Lost

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    Yes...it's *this* question again. Take your best potshots! :p

    Actually, what's a good text editor just for OSX?
     
    taelrak, Aug 11, 2007
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    Alienden Notebook Enthusiast

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    Try cream , as visual as vi could possible get
     
    Alienden, Aug 11, 2007
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    I never liked any of them... Emacs is more powerful, but I guess it is way too powerful. Vi(m) is more streamlined, but I don't like some of the design decisions. If I just want to type and edit text, I'd like something simpler. Hence I voted "other".
     
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    text wrangler, simple and effective. If I need something more complicated I'll use Word.
     
    system_159, Aug 11, 2007
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    For a simple text editor it doesn't get much more simple than vi. Though learning the keyboard shortcuts too me a few hours the first time, I find it effective and very fast.
     
    PetitSinge, Aug 12, 2007
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    Pico for shell environments, TextEdit or similar for gui environments. My needs are not very advanced though, as I don't program much (and when I do, I'll use an editor dedicated to it).
     
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    A good text editor just for OS X would be Textmate. A good text editor for the *NIX shell would be Emacs for more heavier and advanced documents, and VIM for less advanced ones.
     
    Budding, Aug 12, 2007
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    ROFL. Care to explain your VIM/Emacs reasoning ("advanced documents")? Just found that amusing. With plugins/syntax/indent files for virtually every programming language imaginable available for VIM, I just don't see how that is. People don't like VIM due to it's enormous learning curve. But once you learn it, you won't go back. If you don't program, you don't need something like VIM. If you do, you are selling yourself short by using a standard editor (I don't mean Emacs) or even most IDEs. VIMs efficiency and productivity just can't be beat! (of course that's my opinion...)

    VV
     
    VetteVert, Aug 12, 2007
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  9. aliquis

    aliquis Notebook Enthusiast

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    Here in sweden some prefer "smultron".

    Vim ofcourse.
     
    aliquis, Aug 12, 2007
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    Emacs can be effectively used as an IDE. The same can be achived with VIM, but it is less user friendly and a pain to set up. Emacs also has useful libraries, which allows it to run tetris etc., which is a must have after hours of non stop source code editing.
    Nevertheless, both are in my opinion inferior to Textmate on OS X.
     
    Budding, Aug 13, 2007
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