[ALUG] Discuss: Favourite Text / Programmer's Editor

[Chris G]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:17:10PM +0000, Paul Tansom wrote:
> 
> Yay, thanks for that pointer to the Firefox extension, I'm off to
> install it now :) The number of times I end up with strange characters
> in text I'm editing in a web input for is no odds to anyone. Using a
> Windows/GUI editor is, for me anyway, such a slow and cumbersome way of
> working because my hand is forever heading off to the mouse, or shifting
> down to the cursor keys, to get at various functions.
> 
It's a godsend!  My usual mistake is to hit the escape key and lose
everything!

[snip]
> 
> One day I'll try Emacs, because it would be nice to actually be able to
> compare it to Vim properly. All I ever do is fire it up and then find I
> can't do anything, even get out, so I kill the process. I can never
> remember the exit incantation! With Vi I had a short crib sheet for the
> basics that got me going in minutes. I should really find one for Emacs
> before I next fire it up!
> 
Vile/Xvile is actually based on microemacs so 'under the hood' it's
quite Emacs-like.  It can use perl as an extension language.

-- 
Chris Green