Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Sounds like you haven't discovered the joy of EMACS. If you truly want to foray into the more Kafkaesque corners of the Twilight Zone, EMACS is the go-to choice of editors.
While writing this article I was wondering when the first comment on emacs would come. The emacs vs vim wars are legendary.
But all joking aside, I have had emacs on maybe 3 to 5 times in my life and looked at it for a total of 5 minutes. so far I have had no contact with it. You seem to have more experience.
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Been using vi and variants since the late 80s. Mostly settled on vi because it was just "always there" …and, even if vi wasn't (usually because a machine was in single-user mode due to failing to fsck the partition containing the dynamically-linked tools), ex was (which has the same command-set and the same standard-regex that most other UNIX and Linux tools use).
Most of my EMACS encounters were in the 1990s and early 2000s. It seemed to be the preferred-editor for programmers during that period. Haven't really run into anyone using it in the last 15+ years, though – probably as much because everyone that didn't stay with vi (which now seems to be primarily the domain of sys-admins) switched to IDEs.
Sounds like you haven't discovered the joy of EMACS. If you truly want to foray into the more Kafkaesque corners of the Twilight Zone, EMACS is the go-to choice of editors.
While writing this article I was wondering when the first comment on emacs would come. The emacs vs vim wars are legendary.
But all joking aside, I have had emacs on maybe 3 to 5 times in my life and looked at it for a total of 5 minutes. so far I have had no contact with it. You seem to have more experience.
Been using
viand variants since the late 80s. Mostly settled onvibecause it was just "always there" …and, even ifviwasn't (usually because a machine was in single-user mode due to failing tofsckthe partition containing the dynamically-linked tools),exwas (which has the same command-set and the same standard-regex that most other UNIX and Linux tools use).Most of my EMACS encounters were in the 1990s and early 2000s. It seemed to be the preferred-editor for programmers during that period. Haven't really run into anyone using it in the last 15+ years, though – probably as much because everyone that didn't stay with
vi(which now seems to be primarily the domain of sys-admins) switched to IDEs.That's interesting, thanks for the insights.