How to start a flame war...
A few posts back, I mentioned that I was going to try switching from vim to emacs again (editor switching being something I do on a regular basis for a variety of reasons), so as to have a go at a new collaborative editing gadget.
Well, I haven't managed that yet, but I have finally got the latest gnu emacs cvs snapshot running at college, and discovered another cool thing I'd previously been unaware of:
preview-latex mode, in combination with AUCTeX is making mathematical document generation so much easier for me now than when I was using vim - it's unbelievable. Recently, I've been generally of the opinion that the two editors were pretty well as functional as one another (at least if you allow vim to delegate elisp-like stuff to the shell, and hence your scripting language of choice), but I'd not seen anything like this in vim... Is there actually a feature-difference in these editors after all?
Well, not really - vim can't do the funky previews, but it does do a whole load of other cool stuff that I hadn't noticed, and wasn't using. It looks scarily like emacs and vim are actually constructively competing with each other - which is nice :)
The moral for me, I guess, is that I should take even more time to read about cool things that might enhance my productivity - because they're appearing at a rate of knots ;)
Well, I haven't managed that yet, but I have finally got the latest gnu emacs cvs snapshot running at college, and discovered another cool thing I'd previously been unaware of:
preview-latex mode, in combination with AUCTeX is making mathematical document generation so much easier for me now than when I was using vim - it's unbelievable. Recently, I've been generally of the opinion that the two editors were pretty well as functional as one another (at least if you allow vim to delegate elisp-like stuff to the shell, and hence your scripting language of choice), but I'd not seen anything like this in vim... Is there actually a feature-difference in these editors after all?
Well, not really - vim can't do the funky previews, but it does do a whole load of other cool stuff that I hadn't noticed, and wasn't using. It looks scarily like emacs and vim are actually constructively competing with each other - which is nice :)
The moral for me, I guess, is that I should take even more time to read about cool things that might enhance my productivity - because they're appearing at a rate of knots ;)