I was wrong. or: Why vim is better than emacs

posted in programming by jon on 2007-07-03

Contrary to the subtitle of this blog (and much to my private chagrin), I'm occasionally dead wrong. Such is the case with an earlier post in which I vow to switch to emacs as my primary editor. At the time, I had been reading waay too much stevey and reddit articles on lisp. Thus inspired, I installed aquamacs on my macbook, and began slogging my way through the emacs tutorials, convinced that eventually I would "get it", and become an editing wunderkind. Try as I might though, emacs wasn't clicking for me. I constantly had to pause to look up some obscure editing key-fu that tied my fingers in knots, or worse yet, I'd get stuck editing a file remotely where emacs wasn't available. One day, after editing

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