Hi, all,

management summary/TL;DR: what (non-emacs) programming editor do you *nix
users use for hacking on fossil?

Details...

as of tomorrow it will be 6 months since my medical leave started for an
inflamed elbow nerve (caused by too much typing), and i will finally be
returning to work and FOSS (in a reduced capacity at first) as of June 22nd
:). (That Fossil starts with FOSS is purely coincidental... never noticed
until now.)

As part of that, as much as i hate it, i am going to have to drop emacs. My
symptoms have been 95% restricted to my 2 left-most fingers, namely those
which operate Shift and Ctrl (emacs being very ctrl-centric and programming
making heavy use of Shift for symbols). (Yes, there are shift/ctrl on the
right-hand side, but my muscle memory refuses to be re-trained in that
regard.)

Rather than simply customizing emacs to no end i am looking for educated
suggestions regarding an exceptional (but non-emacs-like) programmer's
editor. Of course, there's vi[m] and friends, but it's been 20 years since
i've even bothered to look at other editors than emacsen, and am somewhat
hoping that someone can point me to a good non-vi/non-emacs programming
editor/environment.

Requirements:

- must run on linux. Need not be a console app, but that's a slight plus.

- must be multi-buffer/tab capable. Completely customizable buffer
splitting/sizing is a big plus (i normally split emacs into 3-5 visible
buffers of various sizes and orientations).

- incremental search (Ctrl-s) is a big plus.

- shouldn't make over-use of ctrl. (Alt is okay because my thumb operates
that one.)

- must keep me in the editor (from switching apps/windows) as much as
possible. e.g. the ability to compile (and, ideally, navigate build errors)
at a keypress.

- syntax highlighting is a must. (yes, i'm spoiled by that.)

- don't really care which UI toolkit (if any) it uses.


Any suggestions for kicking one of my longest-running habits (emacs) are
much appreciated. (Maybe just use vi bindings in emacs?)

-- 
----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
http://gplus.to/sgbeal
"Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of
those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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