Martin Gregorie  wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:15:42 +0000, TimS wrote:
>
> > A *manual*? For a fucking *editor*? What are these guys smoking?
> >
> Quite right. Every editor should have a built-in, context sensitive help
> system. However, every Linux user should have a basic knowledge of vi
> because of its ability the use 'hjkl' as cursor keys. This makes it
> usable in an almost totally borked system and that knowledge may be
> useful of you managed to achieve full borkage. It also has excellent,
> fast search&replace capabilities.
>
> That said, my preferred text editor is microEmacs because its fast,
> doesn't require me to use a mouse when editing and I've never hit its
> limit for the number of files it can edit at once. microEmacs and tidy
> are my preferred way of working with HTML pages, microemacs and make for
> C programming and microemacs and ant for Java.
>
vile is the answer! :-)  It's "vi like emacs", it was originally
developed from the microemacs engine I think. It has been my editor of
choice since some time around the late 1980s.

There are implemntations of vile for many platforms, I'm now mostly
Linux based but in the past I used it on Solaris, Ultrix, various
MS-Windows versions, etc.

Simply being able to use the same editor *everywhere* is incredibly
useful.  I use it for composing E-Mail, editing wiki pages, even
filling forms in Firefox.

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Chris Green
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