From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach) Date: 2007-07-22T10:21:56+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Ruby Editor In message <20070722005345.GD66157@demeter.hydra>, Chad Perrin writes: >(leaving aside for the moment the ability to write significant chunks of >plugin code in other languages -- which I think is present in both, but >more obvious and common with Vim) I think emacs is more customizable for one simple reason: vmlinux.el. Emacs is an operating system in which someone wrote a popular programmer's editor. Vim is an extensible editor. (Me, I use nvi. It's not especially extensible, but then, I don't need to extend it; it does what I want and stays out of my face.) -s