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Christian Gollwitzer auriocus at gmx.de
Sat Aug 23 12:09:16 EDT 2014


Hi Steven,

I agree with all you said.

Am 23.08.14 16:56, schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
> Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
>> There are ways to put these editors into Beginner's mode, for vim there
>> is "evim", and for sure emacs has something similar, where the editor
>> behaves more like you expect. In evim, this means you can't go to
>> command mode, and you need to use the menus and toolbars to save/load
>> text. But if you do that, you also loose the functionality that comes
>> from the command mode - it's actually better to recommend Notepad++ or
>> kate.
>
> I'm especially annoyed and/or amused by the tendency of many people to
> assume that there are only three editors: Emacs, Vim (one of which is used
> by all right-thinking people, the other being sent by the Devil to tempt us
> from righteousness) and Notepad (which is used only by the most primitive,
> deprived savages who are barely capable of bashing out "Hello World" using
> one finger).

Just in case that was misleading: Notepad++ is a different editor than 
Notepad:

	http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

This one I actually recommend to people on Windows, who ask me, which 
editor should they use.

	Christian



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