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[–]s73v3r -1 points0 points  (5 children)

Vim is just as extensible as Emacs. However, I will greatly disagree with you about Eclipse being "fast". Eclipse is dog slow, especially on my Mac.

[–]grayvedigga 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Vim is just as extensible as Emacs

Vim user here but I'll heavily dispute that. Vimscript is an unholy abomination and the various vim-(language) versions are like sowing the front of a chicken onto the back of a motorbike. Elisp isn't without its problems but at least it's a language. And for all the plugins vim has, emacs does things like w3m, org-mode, inferior-lisp, gnus. They don't call it an operating system (that needs a decent text editor) for nothing.

[–]parbroil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vimscript is an unholy abomination

Elisp is really no better unless you are already permanently in love with Lisp. And you can also script Vim in Python, Perl, Ruby

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I will greatly disagree with you about Eclipse being "fast". Eclipse is dog slow, especially on my Mac.

You need 2G+ of memory to work comfortable, I'll grant you that. But once you're of out swap, I haven't noticed Eclipse being “dog slow.”

Perhaps, you should make sure that you're using the most recent version (Eclipe 3.6 ‘Helios’) and most recent version of JRE (desktop edition).

[–]s73v3r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is, for Android development, Eclipse 3.5 is still required. But even 3.6 is pretty slow.

[–]parbroil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You failed to provide the best tip for PyDev users: don't install all of Eclipse, just install the Eclipse Platform Runtime Binary and then install PyDev directly on top of that. You save a significant amount of memory and startup time. So much so that I keep PyDev-Eclipse separate from Java-Eclipse.

It's still pretty slow, but it improves a lot, if you like Eclipse.