[Haskell-cafe] indentation blues

Martin DeMello martindemello at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 11:43:11 CET 2011


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Adrien Haxaire <adrien at haxaire.org> wrote:
>
>> Regarding, your question whether this is worth switching from vim to
>> emacs. I've been using both editors for some years and I very much
>> doubt, that "you wouldn't spend much time learning emacs". If you are
>> comfortable with vim, stick with it, unless you are interested in
>> Emacs or one of its really great modes: org and auctex/reftex.
>>
>> Regarding, the vi emulations, I'd say they are nice should you ever
>> be forced to use emacs for some time. But I don't recommend them, I've
>> tried them all. They are not the real thing. Most of them are vi not
>> vim emulators. And they always feel like second class citizens in
>> emacs land. YMMW.
>
> Thanks for your feedback. I've never tried vim so I couldn't tell precisely.
>
> I thought the emulations were nice enough to save time learning emacs. If
> they are second class citizens, I agree it would be wiser to stick with vim
> then.

yeah, i was assuming the emulations were nice enough to support my vim
habits too. if they aren't, not even a good haskell mode would make
emacs comfortable enough to use given my years of ingrained vim.

martin



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