Rarely on these pages have I read such a fluff piece! Al Williams’ coverage of Emacs versus Vim was an affront to the type of in-depth coverage our Hackaday readers deserve. While attempting to be ...

In the vast landscape of Linux, the prowess of a user is often measured by their fluency in text editing. Two titans dominate this realm: Vim and Emacs. These editors are not merely tools; they are ...

Old-school flame wars about the best bare-bones text editor for software development may be revived as new editions of Vim and GNU Emacs were released in the same week. The two text editors have ...

In a world where both software and hardware frequently become obsolete right on release, two rival programs can stake a claim to being among the longest-lived applications of all time. Both programs ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.

The ways in which we interact with computers has changed dramatically over the decades. From flipping switches on the control panels of room-sized computers, to punching holes into cards, to ...

Today, most of us use graphical text editors, but many developers still use vi, or its modern clone Vim, or Emacs, and they're as passionate about their choice of editors as ever. I'm not sure why ...

Specially, and fundamentally, the Emacs keybindings...<BR>Does anyone know of a program, a .vimrc configuration, an add-on, etc. that would allow me to have the traditional Emacs keybindings, but on ...

As a former emacs user, I would really like to be able to mark the text to yank in vim by moving the cursor around.<BR><BR>It seems like visual mode is the way to go about this but I must be doing ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.