Ruby on Rails Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Johndel Deliyiannis wrote:
> I think I should try Vim or emacs with rails but I don't know with who
> I should go with.

Why do you want to use either, instead of something like KomodoEdit or
TextMate?

> I tried both and I feel the same... The most people
> are using vim in ruby community, why? I heard that vim scripting can
> be replaced with ruby, is this true and that is the reason that the
> most people are using vim and ruby?

I have no idea. I can't stand vi, though vim certainly sucks less
badly.

>
> Emacs I heard is more powerful than vim, you can even play tetris but
> the popularity fall in contrast of vim which has grown very much. I
> know about the editor wars but I really can't decide and the more
> opinions I read, the more I am confused...

I like Emacs much better than vi. But I think it's silly to use a
console editor on a GUI box (I don't like Xemacs or Aquamacs).

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org
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