Text editor recommendations

[Chris Jones]

Amedee Van Gasse (u2s) wrote:
> 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.

nonsense. The bear minimum is two figures on your left hand for 
control-x control-f to open a file and control-x control-s to save it. 
Of course the are thousands of other command sequences, but unless you 
want to become some kind of emacs freak, you don't need them. I have 
never seen the need to read email in emacs, even though I believe it is 
possible...

Then of course, if you prefer there is always the menu bar. You don't 
have to use the control sequences at all.

Chris

p.s. You are doing that 'reply to Sounder' thing again in your email 
headers. Was it intentional this time ?