'vi' is driving me crazy

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 22:24, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a character-mode programmer's editor that works a bit 
> more like a gui guy would expect?
> 
> I'd never want to be one to complain, especially on a great day like this, but 
> in between playing with new toys and stuffing myself on every manner of 
> decadence, I'm trying to edit some moderately complex script files (bash). But 
> the modality of vi and the lack of "standard" keystrokes for select, cut, 
> copy, paste is making me looney.

How about gvim? 

'vi' was written long before the 'standards'. 'vi' has a theory that
since all things you may want to do cannot be assigned to an obvious
key, then all keys are by design not related to what they do. That way
you do not get confused about trying to remember if what you are trying
to do is an obvious key pairing or a random one. They are all random.

Also, there is a setting to vi that will tell the mode
(insert/overstrike/command) in the bottom status line. Something like
':set showmode'.

Unlike earlier vi versions, vim allows you to move around with the arrow
keys while in insert mode. I never remember to take advantage of this,
as I am used to the command method.

> 
> Anyone know a good code editor like this:
> - Modeless
> - Uses shift-movement for selection, ctrl-x -c -v for delete, copy, paste
> - Has single keystrokes for things like "save"
> - Works great in character mode
> - Has color highlighting for the common FLOSS languages (sh, python, etc.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
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