I'm apparently stuck with vi, having used it for so many years I just don't feel like learning another one. But my favorite editor of all was Brief (for PC's, in the early '90s), which I learned is called Crisp in a Unix version. It had its own macro language which was easy to learn and fun to write in. You could highlight and modify / move text in any screen rectangle, tile the screen with multiple panes (advanced for the '90s) and other stuff. (But I never learned emacs, so I can't compare the two, though somewhere I heard that Brief / Crisp shares many features with it.) Also, to be fair, vi has improved, at least for writing code, where it matches parentheses and colors different kinds of commands differently, etc. —Dan
On Apr 1, 2016, at 6:20 PM, William R Somsky <wrsomsky@gmail.com> wrote:
Sacrilege! The One True Editor is vi, you heathen! ;-)
On Mar 31, 2016 3:13 PM, "John Aspinall" <j@jkmfamily.org> wrote:
If you're on a Linux system, you have The One True Editor (emacs). M-X rot13-region