Hi!

At Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:18:42 +0900, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> So, I've been a long-term vim user. But I've heard about how emacs
> is pretty good, and there's a vim-compatible mode in emacs

Don't believe those false rumors. Yes, there is viper-mode but it is
unusable to anyone relying on the advanced features of vi (leave alone
vim). Yes, unfortunately I know precisely what I am talking about :-|

Nevertheless you can make Emacs 100% compatible: Simply use 'M-x
ansi-term' then 'vim ENTER'.

That actually is running vim inside a terminal emulation inside Emacs.

When people hear me say "Emacs is great. It only lacks a good editor."
they first think that is meant to be a funny remark. It is not. Emacs
is a great program I use for many tasks but when it comes to quite
advanced editing tasks I usually save the file, do the complex editing
in vim, then switch back to Emacs.

Note that customizing Emacs can help a lot. My favorite setting is:

(delete-selection-mode t)

Its effect is that a selection is replaced by the text that is entered
(or pasted). This is much handier than the original behavior.

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
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