I guess we're into editor religion--have we been trolled? But ... On Saturday, September 02, 2017 09:17:01 PM Dejan Jocic wrote: > You'll > get frustrated every time you have to reach for the mouse or move your > cursor letter by letter with the arrow keys.
If the last time you used a GUI editor you had to use the mouse to move more than a letter at a time, I would guess it's been a while since you tried one. In most of the editors I've used, <ctrl><[left or right] arrow> moves a word at a time, <ctrl><[left or right] arrow> moves further (like a line or a "paragraph". I don't find much use for anything more than that, but, iirc, some editors have additional such navigation (and editing, e.g., delete a word, line, paragagraph) shortcuts. > You'll notice every time a > Vim feature would save you time and tedium, and you'll wish the editor > you're actually using had it. You'll wish the editor was Vim. You'll > wish everything was Vim. You'll wish this imperfect world we live in > could somehow become just a little bit more graceful, a little bit more > elegant, by adopting modal text editing as a common paradigm. You'll > wish desperately that this world was that better one. But it isn't. It > isn't. And it never will be.:wq" > > Best downside of Emacs would be that once you really start working in > it, you can start living in it. Best upside of Emacs is that it has evil > mode. Yes, I can see the advantage of sort of living in an editor. I don't do much programming these days, but I do write and respond to emails and write and modify / add comments to web pages. It would be nice to do all of that within the same editor, but in which I also saw the pictures and the layout as displayed on the web page. I don't think anyone (including Emacs) is there yet.
