[ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor

[Jim Lynch]

On 10/21/2013 03:10 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
> Now to really start the holy wars of all holy wars since we got the 
> preferred distro, desktop, and browser.
>
> What's everyone preferred text editor?
I've been using vi and it's relatives for so long that I find any other 
editor cumbersom.   I use an editor for programming mostly and the 
ability to quickly delete or duplicate lines and place them somewhere 
else via the keyboard beats a GUI everytime, IMO.  There are so many 
things like the yank (yf.  yank all characters up to and including the 
period on one line) substitute (:%s/off/on/g substitute the word on for 
off everwhere) the period to repeat the last command.  All of that 
without taking my hands from the keyboard.  Combine that with a gui in 
gvim and the world is your pearl!  My life would be complete if someone 
would combine the best of geary and vim.

I learned vi many years ago when some version of it was on every system 
I worked on, that had a command line, that is.  I never found it on VM 
or MVS but I wouldn't doubt someone had ported it.

Jim.