Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
2009/10/4 Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es: On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:22:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-10-03, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I don't like nano much either -- I find it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor

2009-10-05 Thread Leslie Turriff
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: IIRC when I was at uni (c 2000) one of the TA's suggested Joe as an alternative to the traditional Unix editors. I have been making a little effort in the last year or two to come to grips with vi or vim, and am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor

2009-10-04 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:22:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-10-03, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but at least it seems to be safe.

[gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor

2009-10-03 Thread Stroller
On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but at least it seems to be safe. It doesn't trash my file every 30 seconds when I start typing content while in command mode. Honestly -- I've used vi infrequently but regularly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor

2009-10-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 11:28 +0100, Stroller wrote: I have this notion - can't be arsed to confirm this, disprove it or find additional information with Google right now - that Joe was developed to overcome this above problems. AFAIK Joe is similar to emacs (without the built-in lisp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor

2009-10-03 Thread daid kahl
What editor do you prefer, then? I have been making a little effort in the last year or two to come to grips with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM that the problem with traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard shortcuts.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor

2009-10-03 Thread Mick
On Saturday 03 October 2009, daid kahl wrote: From this basic stand-point, I haven't found anything vi can do that emacs can't and vice-versa. But I just started forcing myself to use my editor of choice for everything, and then finding work-arounds (for example, in vi :set paste when you

[gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor

2009-10-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-03, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but at least it seems to be safe. It doesn't trash my file every 30 seconds when I start typing content while in command