Why do people still use Vi and Emacs?

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Published on 2010-04-01T05:54:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 6:03 UTC
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This is not a subjective question. I am genuinely looking for techinccal reasons to do so.

I will risk offending some folks (not intended as an offence – maybe as a goad) by saying that I have been coding for 30+ years and used to be religously attched to each of them, but as soone as I saw editor-cum-IDE which seemed to offer more, I moved on.

Is there any compelling reason, in this day and age, to choose Vi / Emacs over – say- Eclipse for code editing? Even Notepad++ for win-doze users seems to offer more.

Just sayin'

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