'vi' is driving me crazy

[Tom Wilson]

On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 16:24, 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.
> 
> 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

Have you checked out Joe?

Tom Wilson 
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