Text editor recommendations

[Florian Diesch]

Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> 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 ? 

vim is designed as a accessibility tool for people who have
difficulties to press more than one key at a time.

> Do you have a different special keyboard for vim with bigger 
> buttons or something ...

That sounds like a good idea. A vim-keyboard with a big fat heavy-duty
ESC-key (designed for 1 Mio. key presses/day) and ESC-lock (automatically
sends 10 ESC/second)


   Florian
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