> My conclusion was this: vi is better for touch typists. Your fingers are almost on the home row. Emacs wants you to hit the meta/alt key a lot, which is difficult for a touch typist. It's much harder than hitting shift. Vi makes you hit escape, but that only happens when you switch modes and it's not that hard to hit.
I had been playing rogue and nethack for a bit when I started programming. The keys hjkl for doing movement was a natural transition to a vt-100 terminal for writing code in vi.
I had also been coding in LPMuds for a bit and the ed command set was firmly engrained in my mind. With vi being both "move using rogue keys" and "do the fancy stuff with the ed commands" there wasn't even a second thought spent on considering emacs.
I had been playing rogue and nethack for a bit when I started programming. The keys hjkl for doing movement was a natural transition to a vt-100 terminal for writing code in vi.
I had also been coding in LPMuds for a bit and the ed command set was firmly engrained in my mind. With vi being both "move using rogue keys" and "do the fancy stuff with the ed commands" there wasn't even a second thought spent on considering emacs.