editor recommendations?

[Russell]

Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:11 PM Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I just ran across:  http://lib.ru/MAN/viref.txt
> ...which is pretty much the same thing, but converted to nice HTML.

To that end, vim also has extensive documentation built in. Just type
:help to get started. There's a pretty good tutorial accessible from the
main help screen. 

And I'll stop talking about vim in the Python group now, I promise. :)

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