> And that was one of the sillier holy wars, since text editors have near-zero network effects and it's trivial for distros to ship both.

Text editors like vi may have near-zero network effects, but operating systems like emacs and vim have plenty of network effects. If I spend months building an amazing interface to git in Emacs but my colleague uses vim, our organisation is hurt.

That's (I think) why people care: they want to collaborate.

> (FWIW I use nano.)

boggle

I’m mostly kidding about nano, I only use that when I have to. My main editor is HomeSite+ 5.5 running on Windows XP in a virtual machine on my Mac. And I’m not kidding.

Oh and by the way it starts faster and uses less RAM than Eclipse. That's fucked up.