Poll Results: vi Narrowly Beats Emacs, ed Gets 3% Posted by Rotundo on Tuesday October 12, @10:20AM EDT from the holy-war-continues dept. Last week's poll asking for your one true editor came in at 31,442 votes. vi took 41%, emacs 39%, pico 9%, and ed a surprisingly loyal 3%. "Cat with a redirect" got 2%, and 6% voted for a word processor whose name we will not print here for fear of starting a riot. Comments are open, but please keep the flames below 451 degrees. Poll Results: vi Narrowly Beats Emacs, ed Gets 3% | Login/Create an Account | Top | 38 comments | Search Discussion Threshold: -1: 38 comments 0: 35 comments 1: 29 comments 2: 21 comments 3: 10 comments 4: 5 comments 5: 3 comments NestedFlatThreadedNo Comments Oldest FirstNewest FirstHighest Scores First The fine print: the following comments belong to whoever typed them. Dashdot takes no responsibility for them, and frankly, neither do most of the people who typed them. ed is the standard text editor by HexHead on Tuesday October 12, @10:34AM EDT (#2) (User Info) ed is the standard text editor. ? [ Reply to This ] Re:ed is the standard text editor by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12, @10:47AM EDT (#4) This. A thousand times this. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Emacs is an OS by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12, @10:41AM EDT (#3) Emacs is a fine operating system. It just lacks a decent text editor. [ Reply to This ] The poll is rigged by GeckoGuy on Tuesday October 12, @10:52AM EDT (#5) (User Info) vi users vote faster because they don't have to press Control-Meta-Shift-Vote. [ Reply to This ] Re:The poll is rigged by NodeNinja on Tuesday October 12, @10:55AM EDT (#6) (User Info) Don't feed the trolls. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by NodeNinja on Tuesday October 12, @11:32AM EDT (#9) (User Info) Exactly. And the vendors know it, which is why they're scared. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by PolarPenguin on Tuesday October 12, @11:48AM EDT (#10) (User Info) Whoosh. That was the sound of the joke going over your head. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12, @11:49AM EDT (#11) Funny, I had the exact opposite experience. Ymmv, I guess. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by q_bert on Tuesday October 12, @12:36PM EDT (#14) (User Info) Actually, that's a common misconception. The spec explicitly allows it; it's the vendors who didn't implement it. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by WebWeaver on Tuesday October 12, @01:56PM EDT (#22) (User Info) Hey, at least it's not Portals. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by frostbyte on Tuesday October 12, @02:04PM EDT (#23) (User Info) Did you even read the parent post? He said the opposite. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12, @02:32PM EDT (#26) You're both wrong, and I'm going to explain why in a post that's way too long for anyone to read. Paragraph one: ... [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by CourtWatcher on Tuesday October 12, @03:00PM EDT (#28) (User Info) Says the guy posting at 3am on a Tuesday. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by Linixdvd on Tuesday October 12, @03:08PM EDT (#29) (User Info) I tried that and it set my monitor on fire. Thanks a lot. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by GeckoGuy on Tuesday October 12, @01:02PM EDT (#16) (User Info) Real men use a magnetized needle and a steady hand. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by MarkupMarcy on Tuesday October 12, @02:21PM EDT (#24) (User Info) Wait until you see the next version. It's going to be worse. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by RetroRaccoon on Tuesday October 12, @03:25PM EDT (#30) (User Info) This is the most sensible thing I've read on Dashdot all week. Somebody mod this up. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12, @12:21PM EDT (#13) Citation needed. Where are you getting these numbers? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:The poll is rigged by overclocked_otter on Tuesday October 12, @01:36PM EDT (#21) (User Info) The parent's point stands, though: it depends entirely on the use case. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Use what works by StylusSam on Tuesday October 12, @11:07AM EDT (#7) (User Info) Honestly, use whatever makes you productive. I use vi for quick edits and emacs for long sessions and nobody has been harmed. [ Reply to This ] Re:Use what works by LowEarthLarry on Tuesday October 12, @11:20AM EDT (#8) (User Info) I work in this field, and the parent is basically right, although the details are a bit more complicated than one comment can cover. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Beowulf by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12, @02:28PM EDT (#25) Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. [ Reply to This ] Read the article by WebWeaver on Tuesday October 12, @03:29PM EDT (#31) (User Info) Did anyone actually read the article? Half the comments here are answering questions that are answered in the second paragraph. [ Reply to This ] Re:Read the article by shell_shocked on Tuesday October 12, @04:10PM EDT (#35) (User Info) Thanks for posting this. I learned something today, which is rare for a comment section. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Read the article by mp3_maniac on Tuesday October 12, @04:40PM EDT (#38) (User Info) Heh. Nice one. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Meh by RailgunRhonda on Tuesday October 12, @03:42PM EDT (#32) (User Info) Meh. Wake me up when it's open source. [ Reply to This ] Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12, @04:21PM EDT (#36) Agreed. Couldn't have said it better myself. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Meh by Prior Art Pete on Tuesday October 12, @04:31PM EDT (#37) (User Info) Not true at all. I've been running it for months with no problems. Maybe check your hardware? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Boring by ByteBandit on Tuesday October 12, @04:07PM EDT (#34) (User Info) Another day, another story about a chip that is 8% faster. Wake me when they invent the flying car. Or at least the flying modem. [ Reply to This ] 9 replies beneath your current threshold. Show them all (threshold -1).

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