On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Neil D. Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: >> Emacs and vim both have huge learning curves that I've decided aren't >> worth climbing. Notepad++ is an excellent GUI text editor for Windows. >> Geany is nearly as good, and runs on anything. > > > They do have a very long learning incline but it isn't actually as steep as > it looks--it's just that it keeps going up as far as you can see. :) > > If simple things weren't simple to do, neither product would have ever > succeeded. > > The GUI version of Vim (gvim), has beginner modes and Windows-like modes to > help with the transitional phases.
Learning vi: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/vi.ref.6 The first time I saw vi, I hated it. I thought "Why would anyone actually choose such a terrible editor?" But then I was forced to use vi for a while, and I'm glad I was. I choose it over other editors now. vi/vim give you a pretty much orthogonal set of verbs and nouns in an editing language. When I have to use editors that make you arrow-key around or click with a mouse, I feel like it's painfully slow - especially if I need to do the same thing 5 times in a row. Sure, some editors let you define macros - vi/vim do that too. But AFAIK, only vi/vim allow you to define a repeatable action without forethought. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
