a good programming text editor (not IDE)

[James Stroud]

Ant wrote:
>>I've tried a few others, like TextPad and Crimson, and right now I use
>>UltraEdit, which I love actually, except for minor issues here and
>>there. But it'd be nice to make the move, as much as possible, to free,
>>open-source, cross-platform software.
> 
> 
> Vim is great if you have a good memory... Otherwise you end up trawling
> through the help to find out how to do stuff that would in another IDE
> be just a few menu clicks away.
> 

Mental memory (the painful kind of memory) rapidly turns into muscle 
memory (the fun kind of memory) and all of those mind boggling 
keystrokes begin to feel like an artistic expression reminiscent of 
playing the piano.

James



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