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On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>wrote: |
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> IIRC when I was at uni (c 2000) one of the TA's suggested Joe as an |
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> alternative to the traditional Unix editors. I have been making a little |
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> effort in the last year or two to come to grips with vi or vim, and am |
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> starting to prefer it, but ISTM that the problem with traditional Unix |
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> editors (i.e. vi & emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard |
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> shortcuts. ISTM the problem with pcio / nano is that advanced users find it |
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> too simplistic. |
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> Stroller. |
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> I encourage anyone who, like me, struggles with those arcane and |
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nonintuitive keyboard codes to take a look at Blair Thompson's X2 |
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Programmer's Editor <http://www.tangbu.com/x2main.shtml>, which, while it |
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does come configured with a plethora of such codes, allows them to be |
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redefined via a simple configuration file. It has easily remembered |
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sequences for the most usual operations (mark line, mark block, move, copy) |
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and powerful command-mode commands which are not cluttered with the usual |
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escape sequence requirements. |
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Give it a try. |
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Leslie |
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