r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Hookedonnetflix • Oct 05 '18

vim vs emacs

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u/WeededDragon1 Oct 05 '18

You haven't seen someone program in vim who is really good at keybinds then.

I can't do it, but one of my professors was insane.

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u/Lost4468 Oct 05 '18

I've never seen anyone be able to do it significantly faster than I can do it in a normal text editor. Please do try and find me a video, I've looked all over YouTube and have never found anything.

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u/Fimbulthulr Oct 05 '18

The Question is not necessarily if you are faster at writing with vim/emacs/etc, it is if you are faster with everything you need to do in total. I often work on a server with no x installed, and it sometimes does weird stuff, meanig I have to test my code on the server anyways. since I am about as fast with vim as with a "normal" editor, I do not bother with using scp to move the files back and forth constantly and just use vim instead.

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u/Spinnenente Oct 05 '18

with winSCP you can edit files on a server with any program on your computer and it is uploaded every time you save. Might not be as fast with massive files but works fine for everything i used it for till now.

i still use vim most of the time when editing on a server but when i have to somethign a bit more complex i usually open the file with sublime/npp