Survey results

[Tod Hansmann]

On 3/19/2012 2:58 PM, Joshua Marsh wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2012 10:17 AM, "Jonathan Duncan"<jonathan at bluesunhosting.com>
> wrote:
>> I am pleased to see that Vim is by far the most preferred text editor.
>   :)  Take that Emacs!
>
> I was surprised by this. I guess I'm a dying breed. I'll have to crack open
> a vim book.
>
Actually, I'm fairly certain this is mostly because vim is much more Sys 
Admin friendly and we have a mix of those heavier in programmer-centric 
interests and systems administration-centric interests.  It's a mixed 
bag (though still slightly vim heavy from what polls I've seen) in the 
programming world, and very one-sided in the admin side.  There's lots 
of reasons for that, mostly availability and unified configurations.  
For instance, I can't use either vim OR emacs as my programming editor 
because I have to jump on various servers using logins I share with 
other people, so I can't customize much of the editor to fit my 
desires.  emacs isn't on all systems, and vi (some variation) is part of 
the standard, so it's on every system everywhere, even if it's not vim 
proper.  I don't think that's a reflection for or against emacs.  It 
just is what it is.

-Tod Hansmann