I have used vim for whatever little lisping I did. It has good syntax highlighting, flashes the parenthesis etc. There are only two things I think vim does not do that emacs does (are there any more?).
#1. Autoindent according to the number of parens open. #2. Run a lisp session in an emacs buffer.
#1. I did manually. Is there any way to do it in vi that I do not know off? #2. this is not so much of a problem as I used two terminals open, one for vi and the other for lisp. I used gpm for copy paste.
Emacs does not have syntax highlighting in the console mode I think. This font-lock-mode, it seems, works only if you open a emacs session from X. But I do not want to use X. Under X I think Xemacs is better that the emacs.
Any reasons I should use emacs rather than vim?
quasi. p.s. Philip what about tutorials on vim||emacs like the one on pine?