@MarioS.E. I have use emacs almost every day for the last 25 years or so and I've used vim twice. So I may not be the best person to give a totally unbiased review of the two systems.
@StefanKottwitz I find LaTeX much too slow and cumbersome for writing notes, but the end product is going to be LaTeX anyway. I found TeXmacs, and it looks like something I can use for notes. But its LaTeX export is a bit weird at times, e.g. instead of $f(x)$ it produces $f ( x)$. I can't send a manuscript to a collaborator like that, and I just don't see a real reason why it has to do that (when otherwise it produces pretty decent latex)
@DavidCarlisle Hahahahahaha, of course I have! What really impresses me is that usually poor countries use software libre (obvious reasons). I studied my bachellor's in Costa Rica, and my professors never said anything about it...
@DavidCarlisle You know, we used to have the free version of everything: windows/ubuntu, matlab/scilab, notepad/notepad++, Intel 8086/ CPUCR x86,
...but I never came across EMAC or vim...
so, what intrigues me: "Is it me, master?" or have these editor had too little attention?
@MarioS.E. emacs is like tex, it offers lots of opportunities for avoiding doing what your professors intend you to be doing so it's not surprising that these days people are initially directed to editors with a less steep learning curve. back in 1985/6 on unix like systems there was really only two choices emacs or vi (on which vim is based). So vi and emacs users have a long standing argument about which is the better system. there is no possibility of the argument ending, even though emacs is..
