Text editor recommendations

[Chris G]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 05:09:56PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> 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 

But bears don't have fingers, they have claws.

> 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

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Chris Green