2009/10/4 Jesús Guerrero <i92gu...@terra.es>: > On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:22:47 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards > <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2009-10-03, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>> On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> ... >>>> I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but >>>> at least it seems to be "safe". It doesn't trash my file every >>>> 30 seconds when I start typing content while in command mode. >>>> Honestly -- I've used vi infrequently but regularly (probably >>>> several times a month) for decades, and my brain just doesn't >>>> work the way vi does. >>> >>> What editor do you prefer, then? >> >> I'm an emacs guy. I've been using emacs (or various clones >> such as jove and jed) for 25 years now. >> >>> IIRC when I was at uni (c 2000) one of the TA's suggested Joe >>> as an alternative to the traditional Unix editors. I have been >>> making a little effort in the last year or two to come to >>> grips with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM >>> that the problem with traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi & >>> emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard >>> shortcuts. >> >> I don't have any problem learning keystrokes. I do have >> problems with vi's modality. > > That's just one of the things I dislike about vi and all the vi clones out > there. To me it is like the difference between edit to live and live to > edit. It's a good editor and I respect people who like and use vi, but I > refuse to use it unless there's absolutely no other option. >
I've been using vi (or vim, where available) for a few years, and I really like some of the features. What I like most is the double mode (command and edit). I find it really easy to use and saves me a lot of time. But I'm pretty sure that's just because I didn't bother learning any other editor (like emacs), and vi can be found at almost ALL linux distros I've come across in the last few years... It's a matter of taste. Some may argue about that (completely pointless), and that just proves that's useless. You like it, you use it, advocate it, but never impose it. -- Daniel da Veiga
