On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:
> > 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 > 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. ISTM the problem with pcio / nano is that advanced users find it > too simplistic. > > Stroller. > > I encourage anyone who, like me, struggles with those arcane and nonintuitive keyboard codes to take a look at Blair Thompson's X2 Programmer's Editor <http://www.tangbu.com/x2main.shtml>, which, while it does come configured with a plethora of such codes, allows them to be redefined via a simple configuration file. It has easily remembered sequences for the most usual operations (mark line, mark block, move, copy) and powerful command-mode commands which are not cluttered with the usual escape sequence requirements. Give it a try. Leslie
