I understand that since they are different they would have general purpose 
proponents, but what about for a specific use, such as writing web pages?
What would be their major advantages and disadvantages?
I'm also considering Quanta+.

On Tuesday 03 September 2002 03:19 pm, Lynn David Newton wrote:
>   Mark> It's interesting that you should mention emacs.
>   Mark> I just started learning emacs while wondering
>   Mark> if I should invest my time in vim instead. I
>   Mark> have a book, "GNU Emacs" 2nd ed. Oreilly 1996,
>   Mark> based on Version 19.30 where the author
>   Mark> describes the advances and differences since
>   Mark> the book's first edition based on Version 18.
>   Mark> Here we are at Version 21 suggesting I should
>   Mark> probably toss the book and use the online and
>   Mark> help tutorials.
>
> No one needs a book to learn Emacs, which is by nature
> self-documenting. The tutorial is a fine place to learn
> the basics, followed by the Info manual. Once you learn
> how to find the information you need, which is always a
> couple of keystrokes away, you don't need a book.
>
> I don't get involved in Emacs versus Vim discussions
> because they are not the same thing. No person who does
> not know vi and its extensions upside down and
> backwards can legitimately claim to know Unix. I've
> known it since 1983. However, I've used Emacs since
> 1987, and since about 1991, XEmacs, for 99.5% of
> everything I do on any Unix machine it is available on.
>
> The bottom line is you'd better learn them both. In the
> Unix/Linux classes I teach at UAT, I teach only vi
> (vim) in the first semester, but have a brief lab in
> Emacs (GNU) in the second semester.