Re: Good ReStructuredText editors
Aahz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.docutils.user |
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| Organization | The Cat & Dragon |
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2014, Ben Finney wrote: > Aahz <[email protected]> writes: >> >> That last bit is exactly why I stick with vim -- my pinky hurts when I >> use Emacs, and I'm still very much a command-line fanatic (I run Vim >> in a terminal window). > > I can't imagine asking anyone to make heavy use of either of Vim nor > Emacs, without mapping the key directly next to the pinky finger's home > position -- usually labelled "Caps Lock" -- as a "Ctrl" key. Been doing that for a couple of decades, ever since keyboards stopped putting the CTRL key where God intended it. > If you're wanting to make heavy keyboard use of any Unix-style program, > you'll be pressing "Ctrl" quite a lot. Your pinky finger will thank you > for mapping that key to a more easily-accessible position. Duh. > I don't see that using Vim makes that any less true than for Emacs; they > both require use of a lot of key chords with the "Ctrl" key. vim requires fewer for editing and navigation. That's the joy of command mode versus insert mode. Keep in mind that I initially made the decision of vi versus emacs on an honest-to-goodness terminal (can't remember whether it was actually a VT100 or something else), and another stellar advantage of vi was that it consumed far fewer resources. -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Member of the Groucho Marx Fan Club ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk