editor recommendations?

[Dan Stromberg]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:00 PM Russell <rsstinnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> > I'm currently using vim, and the primary reason I've stuck with it for
> so long is because I can get truly black screens with it.  By which I mean
> that I have a colorful window title bar, a light-grey menu bar, and then a
> light-grey frame around the text-editing window (aka the only window), and
> a nice, black-background editing area.
>
> I use vim. It's actually extremely powerful, especially for text/code
> editing. I'd recommend reading one of the many books on using vim
> effectively. Also, plugins can really add a lot...
>

On the subject of learning vim: There's an excellent vi cheat sheet
available on the internet.  I've put a copy of it at
https://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/vi.ref.6

vi is of course the predecessor of vim. But that cheat sheet is still great
for learning much of vim.