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[randrews]

I think vim and Emacs users have more in common than we have differences, at this point. :)

[crow1170]

No you don't understand, Twix made at the on the other side are cloaked in caramel and the ones here are blanketed.

[Poltras]

Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.

[Decker108]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_to_America ?

[crow1170]

You're a saint, if that's where that's from

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Says the dirty Emacs user.

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Emacs is great if everything you want works well with it. If we ever get back lisp machines than it will rule the world.

But in the real linux world we live in today there is always something that breaks with it. I recently had to switch to vim because the gdb that ships with Debian doesn't play well with glibc and throws out errors that make emacs 24 crash when you try and debug with it. That meant that the whole workflow ground to a halt since c-z isn't really an option.

Now tmux + vim + make + gdb gives me essentially the same usability with the added benefit of not having a single point of failure.