Text editor recommendations

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Wed, October 21, 2009 11:56, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>> For some reference, if you do find yourself in Vim:
>>
>> There are three modes - Insert, Replace and Command. Hitting 'esc'
>> three times will *always* get you into command mode (once is often
>> enough). Pressing 'insert' will enter insert from command, and then
>> toggle between insert and replace.
>> Commands start with a colon (:), and each command is (generally) a
>> letter long, but can be concatenated. Handy ones are:
>> :q	quit. Will prompt if file's unsaved
>> :w	save (write) file.
>> :wq	save (write) and quit
>> :q!	quit without writing
>
> :q being far and away the most useful... better still, never start vim
> in the first place ;)
>
> Seriously, all the suggestions here are good ones IMHO, apart from vim,
> which has a terribly confusing interface and not something I would point
> a linux newbie at unless I really disliked them. Stay away from vim and
> you won't go far wrong. (For the record, my suggestion would be emacs ;) )
>
> Chris

| sed 's/emacs/foobar/g' | sed 's/vim/emacs/g' | sed 's/foobar/emacs/g'