> What's counterintuitive about a = append, i = insert Well the one thing more intuitive and faster than a and i is not having to use them in the first place...
> Also, all the pattern matching constructs out of grep are available in > searches and substitutions. Dito nedit, presumably all other GUI editors too. > Can you use grep and sed in nano or joe? Please don't confuse the tasks of making minor edits to files and doing eg programming work. Nano and joe are made for a quick console editing job, and at that they're unbeatable (and with syntax highlighting). They're unsuitable for anything big. The small sysadmin job was however what started this in the first place... > Do you have syntax highlighting > in many, many languages? (I can't comment about nedit here). Nedit has a very novel way of controlling syntax highlighting exclusively by regexpes which can even be edited at runtime with the editor GUI itself. Because it can actually look a few lines ahead, the highlighting also acts as a certain amount of syntax checking. Many editors, eg kate, can't look beyond the end of the line and therefore fail to visually indicate many basic problems, eg brace mismatches. But now we're arguing editors (how boring), instead of just having a funny dig... ;) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
