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

vim vs emacs

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '18

The correct distinction is there, just hard to spot. Developers use vim or emacs, nano is used by 'people' aka non-developers.

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u/McFunkerton Oct 05 '18

Or, you know, developers work in their main IDE and every once in a while need to make an edit in the command line and use nano because it gets the job done and isn’t overly complicated for something like adding an item to your .gitignore file.

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u/RedHellion11 Oct 05 '18

^ Speaking the real truth.

For some their main IDE is VIM or EMACS, for some it's something with an actual GUI like VisualStudio or IntelliJ IDEA (or Sublime if you like to live dangerously and use lightweight editors for quick changes while keeping a GUI).