On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:22:47 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2009-10-03, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: >> >> On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> ... >>> I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but >>> at least it seems to be "safe". It doesn't trash my file every >>> 30 seconds when I start typing content while in command mode. >>> Honestly -- I've used vi infrequently but regularly (probably >>> several times a month) for decades, and my brain just doesn't >>> work the way vi does. >> >> What editor do you prefer, then? > > I'm an emacs guy. I've been using emacs (or various clones > such as jove and jed) for 25 years now. > >> IIRC when I was at uni (c 2000) one of the TA's suggested Joe >> as an alternative to the traditional Unix editors. I have been >> making a little effort in the last year or two to come to >> grips with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM >> that the problem with traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi & >> emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard >> shortcuts. > > I don't have any problem learning keystrokes. I do have > problems with vi's modality.
That's just one of the things I dislike about vi and all the vi clones out there. To me it is like the difference between edit to live and live to edit. It's a good editor and I respect people who like and use vi, but I refuse to use it unless there's absolutely no other option. -- Jesús Guerrero
