M Harris wrote:
telling me about ( joe ) ... I am always willing to learn new stuff... and
this little joe editor might do the trick for some of my ( shall I say )
Joe is my favorite if for no other reason than I can get the help on
the top of the screen.
modal brain-dead friends... I mean they are brain-dead in terms of being
able to navigate a modal editor ( like vi ).
I guess I would rather be brain dead.
universal enough for the unix playing field. VI is everywhere... Solaris,
so is the flu
AIX, HP UX, name it... its there... every unix geek or unix-like geek
wannabee *must* learn vi, period, end of story... I'm sorry you're just wrong
about this... there... whew... I told you --so there. :-P
it must have been you about whom this was written.
http://www.nedit.org/features.php?PHPSESSID=5584b573f8054dcccdc6f4e694cf0ac2
"People already exposed to modern GUIs when introduced to UNIX used to
be (and still are) told to use vi or EMACS. If you complained that any
product that requires you to invest hours of training just to edit text
is a stinking abomination from the bottommost pits of hell and you can't
even figure out how to save your document without a manual, you were
told that you were wrong, you just had to hit ctrl+alt+meta+escape + the
phase of the moon and write a small lisp routine without visual
feedback, and that this is in fact a much more powerful and more
efficient way to do things, and that GUI editors are baby's toys (since
most of the ones on UNIX were)."
NEdit was for those who never capitulated to this attitude, and insisted
on a proper gui-based editor that works the way they were used to on
other systems, with a focus on ease of use and familiarity for new
users, so you could be productive right away, without sacrificing power."
Ok, when Xwindows is not running, nedit might not be of any value
(although I thought I remember there being a curses version) but then
there is joe which is a lot nicer IMHO than vi.
Damon Register
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