Re: looking for a text base user interface programming editer for C

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From: Kaz Kylheku
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:57

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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 00:48:26 +0800, Lanzon <lanzon@NOSPAM.upnaway.com> wrote:
>Matthew van de Werken <mvdw73@one.net.au> wrote in message
>news:20010530.073448.1023784356.7045@duey.lmv.org.au...
>> In article <3b13b168@usenet.per.paradox.net.au>, "Lanzon"
>> <lanzon@nospam.upnaway.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry, but you don't get better then VIM!
>> >
>> > The true programmer's tool :)
>> >
>>
>> I guess the only downside is the OP doesn't want to learn "a bunch of
>> keyboard commands".
>
>Pfft, and miss out on the best charater editing tool around? I figure start
>of learning about ":" and "/" and you can trial and error the rest! I think
>i am always finding new niffty commands every day :)

It's easy to understand why people coming from a Wintel background would be
reluctant to learn ``a bunch of keyboard commands'' because applications in
that world tend to have key bindings that change with each release of a
program.  Who wants to make an investment in acquiring a habit that they will
be forced to change?  The keyboard commands in Windows applications are also
inherently obtuse in the sense that using them typically involves some mixture
of UI navigation (think of the ``hotkey'' for a menu item which just brings up
a dialog box, which you then have to ``tab around'' in and interact with
controls using the keyboard). Someone coming from that background probably
can't imagine that the keyboard can be effective for anything other than
entering text.

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From: kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
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Subject: Re: looking for a text base user interface programming editer for C
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