begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:55:48PM -0600: [snip] > I never understood how people can like vi. h,j,k,l for movement is just > annoying, my keyboard has arrow keys for a reason.
Your hands come off the home-row if you use the arrow keys. That is, unless your hands are really wierdly shaped, I suppose. Vi isn't for mutants, that's why we have emacs! Same thing for using the mouse. Your hand has to come off the home row to use a mouse, which means that a mouse-driven editor *cripples* a touch-typist. (Plus, for me, using a mouse causes all sorts of strain in my arm, shoulder, and back. RSI, anyone?) > THe command mode is > annoying, I want to be able to go back and forth to edit and delete without > hitting escape umpteen bazillion times. You only have to hit it once to terminate insert mode and end up in command mode. Emacs has a command-mode as well. You just type with one finger on the control key. . . > And having to memorize a large > list of commands and keystrokes to get anything done is annoying, an editor > shouldn't require memorization. This is my major problem with emacs, I suspect. The amount I need to memorize is simply boggling. Plus having to use the control-key for damn near everything. > For guis, xemacs all the way. For text > only give me emacs or even pico over vi. For GUIs, you can use gvim, which even has a fancy set of menus. For text, it depends -- if you're writing code, pico is an abomination. If you are trying to write an email, and never ever write any sort of code, then pico is probably okay. > Yes, I'm posting a pointless flamewar. I have a bug I really don't want to > work on, sorry. Heh. You mutants with an oversized sinister pinkie finger can do what you want -- just stop expecting us normal humans to agree that your deviant ways are somehow superior. Each to his own. But if you're writing code, avoid pico. If you never intend to touch code, will resist touching code, and are willing to go on the dole before you touch code, then pico is fine. -Stewart "I spend more time editing code than creating it" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
