I'm pretty sure someone has already asked this, but as this is not StackOverflow ...

Question: vim or emacs?

Both suck. Notepad++ rocks.

Vim. Next option is writing it on a piece of paper and scanning it

I'm normally a GNU guy, but... VIM.

Emacs. I don't expect most here to like my suggestion so I won't explain unless you ask.

@FrodoSwaggins Actually, I did donate to Notepad++ because it's the best editor I've ever seen. When I'll have to return to Linux as desktop OS because Win10 just isn't acceptable, Notepad++ will be the reason why I'll install Wine. There's nothing in the Linux world that even comes close - the crappy tuxification "Notepadqq" doesn't measure up.

@Fast-Nop NPP is a decent editor as long as VIM is not available. Although there IS a windows port of VIM, so that's a corner case for me.

Still, if it gets the job done...

@FrodoSwaggins Most importantly, it's easy to exit. How will we make fun of the neophytes trying to quit it for the first time?

Pffft I even managed to work with the build/edit system of Turbo Pascal 3.0 which was pretty much fucked up in a similar way. With a Norton index of 0.33, i.e. three times as slow as an XT because it ran simulated on an 68k. :-)

I use vim, I'm completely aware of what emacs can do. alternatively I use KWrite (but in vim mode 😂). I don't think anything else is needed except vim. For fancy things in vim ... plugins.

I have to fuck around with servers all the time at work and Vim is actually a "required skill" for hiring devs where I work.

I honestly love Vim, if you learn it good its fucking crazy how fast can you get shit done. Emacs is fine as well but being that servers already come with vi them it wins for me.

Still, one of the major selling points for emacs in my case was the exposure to Emacs Lisp. Don't get me wrong. It is probably the worst Lisp dialect available, but it is still a good introduction to the editor. And also the main reason why you can pretty much view emacs as an os

Pack evil mode in that bitch and you got yourself the best of both worlds.

For small one file edits: Vim
For bigger projects and coding: Emacs (with Evil mode)

Nano 😂

vim -p all the things