Re: [Haskell-cafe] indentation blues

On 13.12.2011, at 11:43, Martin DeMello wrote:

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Adrien Haxaire wrote:

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Regarding, your question whether this is worth switching from vim to emacs. I've been using both editors for some years and I very much doubt, that "you wouldn't spend much time learning emacs". If you are comfortable with vim, stick with it, unless you are interested in Emacs or one of its really great modes: org and auctex/reftex.

Regarding, the vi emulations, I'd say they are nice should you ever be forced to use emacs for some time. But I don't recommend them, I've tried them all. They are not the real thing. Most of them are vi not vim emulators. And they always feel like second class citizens in emacs land. YMMW.

Thanks for your feedback. I've never tried vim so I couldn't tell precisely.

I thought the emulations were nice enough to save time learning emacs. If they are second class citizens, I agree it would be wiser to stick with vim then.

yeah, i was assuming the emulations were nice enough to support my vim habits too. if they aren't, not even a good haskell mode would make emacs comfortable enough to use given my years of ingrained vim.

I am not saying they are bad, but when I returned to emacs after two years of using vim, I was disappointed by their functionality and especially by the integration between third-party emacs-modes and the vi emulations. Though, I believe there is some work on new vim emulators. I am not sure on their status. They are probably no non-brainer option, yet. What I really liked about Claus Reinke's haskell-mode for vim was the ability to insert update statements with one command. Cheers, Jean