Note: I wrote this post just for fun. Please don’t take it seriously. Thank you!

Which editor are you using, Vim or Emacs? And why?

Next time, when you are arguing with other people about which editor is better and trying to persuade others to use your favorite editor, just forget it. If you believe everything is in destiny, it is not an exception for the editor you choose. The choice is written on your fingers.

Several days ago, I learnt from Mike that the choice between using Vim or Emacs depends on your fingers. As he figured out, people have longer fingers prefer to use Vim, while people have shorter fingers prefer to use Emacs. It is amazing, but reasonable.

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What can you do for killing time? Maybe you could figure out what email clients your contacts are using. It’s funny.

Most people prefer webmail, especially Gmail. Webmail is very easy to use and does not require much configuration. Gmail is the most wonderful webmail. It groups messages by threads and it has a powerful searching tool. You can easily find out what you want from the mass.

However, one drawback of webmail is that you cannot access your mail off-line. Although Gmail started to support off-line email recently, I still think that keeping the emails in my local storage is safe and reliable. Moreover, an email client is generally much more customizable than webmail. So, I am using Evolution, which is the most powerful and standard email client in Linux, to receive and send email everyday.

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