Vi is driving me crazy

[Susan Macchia]

> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > 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? 
> 
> Thanks. But if I'm understanding what Google turned up, gvim is just a 
> gui version of vim. And I'm already using vim since 'alias' shows this
> 
>    alias vi='vim'
> 
> If vim is "improved", I'm glad I'm not using the unimproved version.
> 
> The problem with vi is not one of knowing what mode I'm in, it says so 
> at the bottom. The problem is having to constantly switch modes to do 
> the most basic tasks (file save, search/replace, cut/copy/paste) and my 
> fingers don't know about modes, they just want to type. Having to wait 
> on my eyeballs to figure out what mode we're in is just never going to work.
> 
> I'm not looking for a gui editor. We have tons of those. I'm looking for 
> a command-line (full screen character-cell) editor.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael

Well, I use Nedit (www.nedit.org) because it is easy to learn and quite
powerful.  Having been an old VI user from way back, I didn't want to spend the
time learning a new editor like EMACs, so I tried out Nedit and found it very
easy to use/learn.  But, if you don't have X windows running, no cigar - vi (or
ed) is about it I think.

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