GNU Emac C++ Programming??

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Hehe, well I won't say it's better, I would try both and find which one you prefer. I'm a Vim fan however. I'd recommend reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
I am also a Vim fan aka Vi Improved. But now except for quick one-liner or short scripts, I wrote my code in Textpad and then FTP or SCP over. It is still more efficient to use a friendly with syntax highlighting etc text editors :P
It is still more efficient to use a friendly with syntax highlighting etc text editors
¿? If vim is more efficient, ¿why you don't use it then?
HAHA! A vim vs. emacs discussion - delightful. Long story short: Vim wins ;)

What kind of Laptop you're on? If you like real sharp performance, have look at crunchbang or similar distro's. My netbook boots in a few secs and runs like a "big one" avoiding this costy stuff ubuntu comes with...

My desktop is running Ubuntu though...both are debian based...
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Fedora's where it's at man!
¿? If vim is more efficient, ¿why you don't use it then?


Is there a Windows version of vim ? I always associate vim and the like as Unix specific text editor. Syntax highlighting is pretty important to me.
¿Do you mean a graphical interface? There is gvim (I didn't try it)

Put this in your ~/.vimrc
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"tab
set autoindent
set tabstop=4
"set expandtab "if you want spaces
set shiftwidth=4

set nu "line numbers
syntax on "highlighting (detects the language automagically, you can set it with setf)
"set hlsearch "resalt found text

"Set up a template acording to the type of the file
autocmd! BufNewFile * silent! 0r ~/.vim/skeletons/template.%:e

"etc (important) 
autocomplete, tags, tabs, windows, mapings...
Yes there is a windows version of vim, I do all of my C coding in Vim with cygwin and gcc on a windows machine, works amazingly :)
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