| I think the biggest argument towards vim/emacs instead of TextMate or any number of other editors is that you want a tool you can always count on. I have been using emacs for over 15 years now. Over the course of that time I've fucked around and built my own elisp libraries here and there, but by and large I'm a pretty generic user. But I can move around files and edit text like a madman. Over those 15 years I've used emacs on Solaris, Windows, Mac, Linux and various other Unixes. Over those 15 years I've used emacs to edit HTML, CSS, C/C++, Perl, PHP, Java, Ruby, Python and god knows what else. The reason I stick to emacs is that it is a tool I know I will ALWAYS have. No matter what platform, no matter what language, I know I'll be productive in it. We are craftsmen, pick a tool you know you can hone and use for your entire lifetime and career. A closed source text editor that only runs on one platform is definitely not that tool. |