GNU Emacs vs Traditional Ex - Vi editor
A side-by-side look at GNU Emacs and Traditional Ex - Vi editor. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
GNU Emacs
Development
GNU Emacs is a popular, open source text editor and computing environment. It runs on most operating systems and provides extensibility through an Emacs Lisp interpreter.
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Traditional Ex - Vi editor
Development
The vi editor (short for visual editor) is a classic, ubiquitous text editor common to Unix-like systems. It has a modal, command-based interface, and supports extensive key bindings and scripting. It excels at text editing productivity once the user knows the commands.
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