Editing code using VIM for C / C++ / PHP versus emacs
There are two scripts that I always use with VIM:
1. Tlist (or tags list): It lists the functions, variables in all opened source files.
2. Nerd commenter: Provides easy comment to source code, the easiest way is using Ctrl+C in during insert.
I’ve been using vim for a while, and lately I tried to use emacs for editing my code. I discovered that emacs was a much better editor, that takes so much time to configure. It is highly configurable to the extent that it can take you days to customize it to the point that makes you happy. I liked the M-; fast comment shortcut in emacs, and its C-style indentation (corresponding to set cindent in vim)
Since I was trying to emulate the same environment I had with vim, I looked for something similar to Tlist, and I found an elisp program called ecb (emacs code browser), the provides that tags in the opened source file. I also found the speedbar from the cedet-tools website, that provides a similar functionality. Both tools were not able to browse php code, unfortunately.
Although I believe that emacs is a much better editor, at the moment the available plugins do not support PHP, which for me is very important as I do a lot of php editing. However, for C/C++ I will be using emacs (or xemacs) for developing as it is much easier to work with.
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