On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Stroller wrote:
>
> IIRC when I was at uni (c 2000) one of the TA's suggested Joe as an
> alternative to the traditional Unix editors. I have been making a little
> effort in the last year or two to come to grips with vi or vim, and am
> starting to prefer it, but I
2009/10/4 Jesús Guerrero :
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:22:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>> On 2009-10-03, Stroller wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
...
I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but
at least it seems to be "safe". It
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:22:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2009-10-03, Stroller wrote:
>>
>> On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but
>>> at least it seems to be "safe". It doesn't trash my file every
>>> 30 s
On 2009-10-03, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> ...
>> I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but
>> at least it seems to be "safe". It doesn't trash my file every
>> 30 seconds when I start typing content while in command mode.
>> Honestly -
On Saturday 03 October 2009, daid kahl wrote:
> From this basic stand-point, I haven't found anything vi can do that emacs
> can't and vice-versa. But I just started forcing myself to use my editor
> of choice for everything, and then finding work-arounds (for example, in vi
>
> :set paste when y
> What editor do you prefer, then?
>
> I have been making a little effort in the last year or two to come to grips
> with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM that the problem with
> traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi & emacs) is that they depend upon learning
> obscure keyboard shortcu
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 11:28 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> I have this notion - can't be arsed to confirm this, disprove it or
> find additional information with Google right now - that Joe was
> developed to overcome this above problems.
>
AFAIK Joe is similar to emacs (without the built-in lisp s
On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
...
I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but
at least it seems to be "safe". It doesn't trash my file every
30 seconds when I start typing content while in command mode.
Honestly -- I've used vi infrequently but regularly (proba
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