From: Phil Hagelberg <phil@...>
Date: 2006-05-17T00:42:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Editing ruby code with Emacs or Vim ?

"Alder Green" <alder.green@gmail.com> writes:

> I use Emacs since it's more flexible and hackable. Running consoles, a
> WEBrick instance, debuggers, IRB - all within full-fledged Emacs
> buffers with all the benefits. You can't do that with Vim.
>
> And the above are really, just beginners stuff: Emacs is *supposed* to
> be able to (not "hacked into") have buffers functioning as anything
>>From mail-clients, newsgroup readers, IRC clients, to online Chess
> clients. So imho, if you use Emacs you are guaranteed (at least more
> than any other editor) to be able to get it to work as you want.

Emacs also tricks you into learning some lisp if you use it long
enough. You can count that as an advantage or a disadvantage, but
since it's one of Matz's favorite languages I would say it's quite
fitting for Ruby in an indirect way. =)

-Phil Hagelberg