On 06/18/2016 06:12 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 11:07:23 AM UTC+12, Michael Torrie > wrote: >> >> On 06/17/2016 05:52 PM, Chris via Python-list wrote: >>> >>> Any suggestions for a good open source text editor for the Mac >>> out there? For now, I am going to stick with vim. >> >> Good choice. > > The trouble with vim/vi/whatever, is that it doesn’t work like any > other editor on Earth.
The fact that the OP is using vim would suggest this doesn't really matter to him all that much. > Pull up any old GUI-based editor you like, for example Windows > (shudder) Notepad. If there are N characters in your file, then the > insertion point can be placed at N + 1 positions: in-between two > adjacent characters, or before the first character, or after the last > character. And this makes sense: anything you type is inserted at the > insertion point. All rational text editors (and word processors) work > this way. Indeed, so does vi/vim. Why do you think otherwise? > But not vi/vim. It only lets you place your cursor *on* a character, > not *in-between* characters. That’s why you need two separate > insertion commands, insert-before and insert-after. And one of those > has the interesting side effect where, if you exit insertion mode > without inserting anything, it doesn’t put you back in the same > position as before. Why? > > As to why you need insertion commands at all, that’s another > thing... Having used vim for years and also normal editors including word processors, I have no idea what you're talking about by how insert works. It works the exactly the same. I put my cursor under a letter, hit insert, and I am inserting text before that letter, just like any other text editor. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
