Editor wars

The hacker community has a tradition of treating their favorite editor with a reverence bordering on religious fanaticism. Many flame wars have been fought between groups insisting that their editor of choice is the paragon of editing perfection, and deprecating the other's. Most participants in these arguments recognize that it is (mostly) tongue-in-cheek.

Editor wars are usually fought between the devotees of Emacs and vi, the two most popular editors on Unix. Frequently, at some point in the discussion, someone will point out that ed is the standard text editor.

Church of Emacs

There is an active Usenet group alt.religion.emacs devoted to the Emacs side of the "holy war" with its major competitor.

news://alt.religion.emacs