{"id":80,"date":"2010-10-15T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2010-10-15T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T20:07:00","slug":"vi-or-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Vi or Emacs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vi<\/strong>. &#8216;nuf said.<\/p>\n<p>Vi or Emacs? It&#8217;s one of those comment and IRC saws in the developer community. At least the UNIX developer community. Windows guys argue over &#8211; what? Visual Studio vs Notepad? Same for Mac developers.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing used to start a bitter flame war better than Vi or Emacs questions. For a while there, I used to care about such nonsense. Not so much anymore. Now it&#8217;s what is the best tool for the job, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll use. If I&#8217;m on Windows and doing scripting, usually that&#8217;s Notepad ++, if I&#8217;m on Linux, Gedit. In a terminal, Vi.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to be familiar with your tools and how to use them, but it&#8217;s not important which tool is the best. Arguing over such things is not going to make you a better programmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vi. &#8216;nuf said. Vi or Emacs? It&#8217;s one of those comment and IRC saws in the developer community. At least the UNIX developer community. Windows guys argue over &#8211; what? &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}