'vi' is driving me crazy

[Tim Wunder]

I like kate alot. Unfortunately, if I've been editing in vi recently, I tend 
to hit :wq to save my edits :-(

On Monday 27 December 2004 3:03 pm, someone claiming to be Matthew Carpenter 
wrote:
> KATE is a great GUI editor for everyday and most programming stuff (even
> allows collapsing of XML and other languages)
>
> JEdit is a good editor if you're writing Java and don't wish to run
> bloated Eclipse or Forte/NetBeans (although I personally still use them
> as well).
>
> 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.
> |
> | 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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