We use data science and machine learning inside Cmd to build a fingerprint of an individual user’s behavior that drives alerts on threats and other security incidents.

So that’s what people think, but what do people actually use?Īs part of the information that Cmd collects to monitor for suspicious and dangerous user activity, we also gather insight into what commands and programs users run. We started by asking the twittersphere which text editor they preferred…there seemed to be overwhelming support for Vim. The Test, and the ResultsĪ few weeks ago, our CEO Jake King, wanted to resolve the long term battle at Cmd with our CTO Mike Sample, about which is a more popular text editor: Vim OR Emacs. However, it’s been said that putting in the extra effort is worth it because you will ultimately be able to work much faster and more comfortably in Vim. Vim is known to have a much steeper learning curve than Emacs. On the other hand, Vim is a power-user’s tool, using keyboard shortcuts to speed up tasks. Emacs tends to be relatively straightforward, similar to commonly used text editors like Notepad. If you’re not a Linux user, here’s the deal: Vim (along with its predecessor Vi) and Emacs are both text editors used in coding, editing files, administering systems, and a whole bunch of other tasks. You’ll find flame wars on old Usenet groups dating back to 1985 (yes, that’s the year of Back to the Future and New Coke). This rivalry goes back to pretty much before there was even an Internet. One of the oldest and most long-standing of these arguments is the Editor War between Vim and Emacs.

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