Does anyone actually use the editor for cutting code these days though?
Absolutely! From what I've seen, most folks who take the time to learn vi will never go back.
The only thing AE is good for is macro-fixing savedlists of records, IMHO. It really astonishes me that folks continue to use AE for editing programs where you can really only look at one line at a time.
I've been using full screen GUI editors for years now. I think I'd pull my hair out going back.
GUI editors generally lack many of the vi features: use of regular expressions, superior cut and paste, multiple cut/paste buffers, the ability to read the output of external commands into the file, the ability to employ Unix shell utilities (like sed or awk) to edit the file etc etc.
The only GUI editor I'd use for programming is vim! It is absolutely worth it to learn vi or vim for editing in UniData (and, I'm sure UniVerse too). If you're on Windows, there's Vim for Windows.
I don't know much about UniVerse, but I can't imagine that an editor should make any difference as most editors should be available to either platform. On UniData just set the variable UDT_EDIT=/usr/local/bin/vim (or whatever your editor is) and voila.
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