in reply to Code Editor

The two major factions are emacs and vi, or more generally xemacs and vim. Both are very powerful editors, with syntax highlighting and all sorts of other features.

Neither, however, is easy to use. You have to learn all sorts of keystrokes to make it do what you want. Then, after a year or so of using it, you wonder how you ever lived without it.

Seriously, spend the time to learn one of those two, and it will pay off dramatically through convenience and productivity.

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RE: RE: Code Editor
by Petruchio (Vicar) on Sep 29, 2000 at 12:07 UTC
    C'mon, Fred... let's not exaggerate. A year?? A week or two, if you're really using one of them exclusively. And you can use vi with a pretty minimal subset of the commands available; though doing so certainly won't make you wonder how you lived without it. :-)

    Update:

    In the interests of making this a more useful post, here's a link to "Just enough vi editor commands to survive", an aptly-named page with a pretty minimal subset of vi commands.

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