Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clay Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The first real text editor I used was Vim, which I actually started >> using about a year ago. I've looked at Emacs and it just looks >> confusing. > > I've been using emacs for so many years (um let's see, it's got to be > close to 25 years now; first saw it on Columbia's TOPS-20 systems in > the early 80's) that my fingers know what they're doing without my > even thinking about it. In fact, I used to work with another emacs > nut. Every so often, one of use would watch the other do something > and ask, "What was that?". Inevitably, neither of us could evoke the > keystrokes we had just typed. We would just re-do it, and watch our > fingers to see what we typed. It didn't even have to be on a > keyboard; we could air-type it, and that was good enough. > I also started using Emacs about 25 years ago, but then when I moved to using DOS machines which at the time weren't capable of running Emacs I suffered withdrawal symptoms until I found Epsilon (http://lugaru.com) which started life as an Emacs style editor on DOS.
I still use Epsilon today, even when I'm using Linux: it isn't free software in any sense of the word, but I find that a lot of the things I use it for it actually does better than Emacs. If you are willing to consider paying for an editor then download the evaluation copy of Epsilon and give it a go. -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
