'less' is a great tool for browsing Rails log files, though you might not guess it if you try to view your "development.log" with it.

I often hear the proponents of vim and emacs discussing which is better, usually pitting emacs' extensibility against vi's archaic yet arguably effective and tendon-friendly scheme of editing modes.

But why choose?

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