Text editor recommendations

[Amedee Van Gasse (u2s)]

On Wed, October 21, 2009 16:20, Chris Jones wrote:
> Florian Diesch wrote:
>> Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>> ;) )
>>
>> vim is a great editor if your hands are to small for using Emacs. ;-)
>
> How ? Do you have a different special keyboard for vim with bigger
> buttons or something ...

You need 6 fingers on every hand to use E.M.A.C.S.