On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 07:23:15 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 06/19/2016 01:34 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 7:13:26 PM UTC+12, Christian Gollwitzer >> wrote: >> >>> Am 19.06.16 um 02:12 schrieb Lawrence D’Oliveiro: >>> >>>> But not vi/vim. It only lets you place your cursor *on* a character, >>>> not *in-between* characters. >>> >>> This is true if you use the text-mode version. I prefer gvim (actually >>> macvim on the mac) which feels much more like a modern editor. >> >> Why not just use a modern editor, and be done with it? > > Why would you even suggest this to a vim user? What's your point? If > you're not a vim user then you have no idea how vim benefits the person > who is proficient in it and enjoys using it. There are many reasons to > use vim. Since you're not really interested in these reasons I won't > bother re-stating them here. I'm sure there are reasons you prefer a > "modern editor" also. > > I can argue all day long about how arcane emacs is, and argue how > wodnerful vim is, but I could never in seriousness suggest to an emacs > user that he'd be better off using vim or a "modern editor." Nor should > you.
indeed The only thing EMACS lacks is a good text editor. Vi has two modes "beep repeatedly" and "break Everything" Although both the editors are extremely powerful they both suffer from over design. -- If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
