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.

I won't use graphical editors because the constant grabbing for the mouse
is a real slow-down. Similarly, although my preferred mail client is
Evolution and I normally use OfficeLibre for fancy documents which are to
be printed of converted to PDF, my absolute favourite wordprocessor would
still be Microsoft Word for DOS because, again, you could do everything
without taking your hands from the keyboard and its use of function keys
was really well thought out  - much better that the scrambled mess that
was WordPerfect - and Word was faster too.


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