I have been a fan of emacs as a general purpose editor for decades. I have long used Epsilon, an emacs clone on PC-DOS and Windows through XP. It does not seem to work in Windows 7, and installing the open source version was a pain, until I found
this.
Emacs? I did not know you were a masochist :)
ReplyDeleteMy first reaction to emacs was disgust, but some of the unique features such as keyboard macros make it a profoundly useful tool.
ReplyDeleteLet the religious wars begin: vi forever! :)
ReplyDeleteI am also an adherent to the vi cult.
ReplyDeleteI can use vile, but the old joke about vi commands being hard to distinguish from line noise comes to mind. dw deletes to end of line; dG to end of file; does d* erase the universe?
ReplyDeleteNo, no - dw deletes to the end of the _word_, d$ deletes to the end of the line. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, noise-like for sure, but my fingers know it. My brain isn't even involved.
I'll have to try d* and see what happ