Richard Lewis wrote:
Perhaps text editors are just too fundamental a tool for people either to make a big fuss about them (though emacs/vi flame wars would suggest otherwise) or to spend time developing new ones.
Personally I do a lot from terminal windows (oftenvia SSH) and frequently fire up a textmode editor within the GUI.
But for a lot of things I think a good GUI editor ought to be better (anything presentational, like syntax highlighting, printing, etc works better in a GUI even where it can be done from textmode, imho). After all, lynx (and others like it) are really good browsers when you need them, but I still use Firefox for day to day browsing! I also have one eye on a desire to convince others to move away from Windows and they're not likely to be tempted by textmode.
I should probably try to get my head around emacs, having never learnt to love vi (from a terminal I tend to use joe, having had exposure to Wordstar compatible editors in the dim and distant past).