Re: Good ReStructuredText editors

Aahz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docutils.user
Organization The Cat & Dragon
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
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