At 5:33 pm -0800 2/3/05, Aaron Priven wrote:
The one real advantage to vi-type editors compared to other editors is that they enable you to edit without taking your hands off the home keys.
Both TextWrangler and BBEdit, which for Perl purposes are virtually identical (it's the html stuff that's missing in TW) are configurable to the nth degree as regards keystrokes and can be customised, I am sure, to emulate the behaviour of vim or whatever as regards keystrokes. Any key combination can be used to perform any operation within the document, the application or beyond. Pods can be displayed for selected terms of module names at a single keystroke etc. etc. The most involved sequences of tasks can be performed with a single keystroke. In a short time a user can set up the application to respond as he chooses to commands that he chooses, which might be vim-like or might not.
JD
