Emacs or Vi? Why the answer is neither.

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Gyula Gubacsi wrote:
> I'm using Visual Studio and Eclipse on regular basis, and I 
> have an almost
> 100% coverage of short cuts within these IDEs. I don't see why 
> a GUI IDE
> should lack of the most important feature for a programmer, to 
> be able to
> use with keyboard only.

I agree, this seems to be overlooked in IDEs. I think something 
like Right-Ctrl + W/A/S/D keys or something equivalent for 
navigating would be a simple fix to this.


> In addition, emacs is an IDE, I would argue, that
> one of the coolest IDE I ever seen because of its almost 
> infinite
> expansibility. It's a complete shell you know...

Never used Emacs. I've only really been using Linux and FOSS 
tools for ~8 months now, so I haven't had time to explore 
everything. Also, I don't have a lot of reason to use Emacs; I 
don't write C/C++ code on a regular basis. I use GEdit/Notepad++ 
for web work (for their built-in FTP functionality), and 
VisualStudios/MonoDevelop for C# and D.