a good programming text editor (not IDE)

[Scott David Daniels]

Istvan Albert wrote:
> Scott David Daniels wrote:
> 
>> To paraphrase someone else (their identity lost in my mental fog) about
>> learning VI:
>>      "The two weeks you'll spend hating vi (or vim) as you learn it will
>>       be repaid in another month, ad the rest is pure profit."
> 
> Time and again I hear this (no shortage of Vim fans, same with Emacs),
> and I know I should know better but always believe them yet again.
> Invariably I download Vim play with it for an hour, get increasingly
> frustrated and give up. 

Surprise, surprise.  One hour is not two weeks.

--Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org