Back حرب محررات النصوص Arabic Válka editorů Czech Editor War German Guerra de editores Spanish جنگ ویرایشگرها Persian Guerre d'éditeurs de texte French Perang editor ID Guerra degli editor Italian エディタ戦争 Japanese 편집기 전쟁 Korean
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The editor war is the rivalry between users of the Emacs and vi (now usually Vim, or more recently Neovim) text editors. The rivalry has become an enduring part of hacker culture and the free software community.
The Emacs versus vi debate was one of the original "holy wars" conducted on Usenet groups.[1] Since at least 1985, many flame wars have occurred between those insisting that their editor of choice is the paragon of editing perfection, and insulting the opposing group accordingly.[2] Related battles have been fought over operating systems, programming languages, version control systems, and even source code indent style.[3][4]
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- ^ "Just Let Me Code". Archived from the original on 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
- ^ "Why Coding Style Matters". Archived from the original on 2015-05-03. Retrieved 2015-04-24.