gbollard wrote:
So anyway... I was wondering .... if Joe and Vim are your best editors ... why? You must be looking for quite a different feature set than me? What sets your editors apart?
I gather that you are running Windows... Vim is primarily a UNIX text editor, so probably would not be a good choice to use on Windows. Vim is an extremely powerful editor, though it has a steep learning curve. I can barely even claim to be a Vim n00b, and I still edit text considerably faster using Vim than I do with "normal" editors like Nano or Gedit. Almost any action you want to do is only a keystroke or two away, without having to constantly hold down modifier keys (escape-meta-alt-control-shift
) and you never have to touch the mouse.
Also, Vim is pretty much everywhere- standards organizations have decreed that some incarnation of Vi should be on every Posix system, so OSX and most Linux distros include vim by default.
I'm actually completely ignorant of Joe, my comment was just a tongue-in-cheek invocation of the Editor Wars. I have no idea if Joe is good, bad, or ugly.
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