Vi(m) has the advantage that it is installed (not only available) by default on almost any *nix system. Still if you would have to pick one of them I'd go with vim because of one thing: I would advise that checking out both is worth the time because of various reasons already covered by other answers or "Emacs vs vim vs XY" threads.
The thread has definitively exceeded my expectations! Thank you! :) I picked one answer as the accepted one just now, but I would like to say "thank you" to all those who shared their experience and advice: almost all of it has being useful to me in some way.
Have a look at this answer (unrelated topic) for an idea of the kind of information / style of answer I am looking for
#EMACS VS VIM HOW TO#
What advice would you give me on how to learn using it/them? I know this is a broad question, but it is deliberately so. Google trends seems to indicate Vim is the mostly adopted between the two, however my first question is: knowing that I have no prior experience whatsoever on any of the two, and that I use and develop (mostly PHP and Python) on GNU/Linux systems (Ubuntu, Arch Linux), is there any of the two which would represent a better option to start with? (To be clear: my question is not about the quality of the editors but it is about what it is strategically better to learn in my situation). In the linked thread responders have essentially answered by commenting on Vim (often mentioning: "I'm sure Emacs has the same"). So, I have two questions for the community: I have the impression you must dedicate some time and effort to "study" them a bit, before you can benefit from their power. I have the general feeling that Vim and Emacs are not the kind of editor you learn by "playing with it" though. Not to mention, I haven’t felt like the async issues associated with vim are that much of an issue for me anyway, especially with vim-dispatch.I am a quite happy user of Eclipse (I mostly develop in PHP and Python), however I found the answers to "What specific productivity gains does Vim/Emacs provide over GUI text editors?" interesting enough to make me wish to try out Vim or Emacs as well and see if they would turn out to be a better solution for me. I honestly suspect that once my 52pairs project is over, I’ll probably invest the time into using emacs, but right now its far easier for me to accomplish what I’m after with Vim and a smallish set of plugins. I don’t have the time to commit to properly learning the extra emacs stuff that falls outside of the evil-mode scope.
evil mode is the closest vim emulation I’ve come across (Have used Rubymines version too).a lot of your fav vim plugins are already ported, in very little lines of emacs lisp, which is something I’m very interested in.The short version is, it’s pretty great, but I am still sticking with Vim + Tmux, primarily for pairing purposes So I’ll give you my 2c, I recently started evaluating both of these again as well, primarily because I’d spent a bit of time with Vim and was preparing to spend potentially even more time in Vim, so wanted to check out just how good evil-mode in Emacs was.
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