Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Well, you know, it's a text-mode editor. I guess by definition that
> places rather strong limits on what useful things it can do.

yes, I guess working on streams of bytes also "places rather strong limits on
what useful things" a computer it can do...

> - You can't click on where you want the cursor to move to. You must
> manually move the cursor around using several million arrow key presses.

really?  This is not true as of this age and even if it was true, believe me:
arrow keys are evil.  Use "{" or "}" to jump between paragraphs and other
blocks of text, "50G" to go to line 50, "(" or ")" to jump between sentences
and when you want to go back to previous stops, "CTRL+O" goes back through the
location stack...

> - You can't cut and paste blocks of text.

you're insane:  "3y}" copies the 3 long blocks of text below without even
thinking about it.  "p" places it just before the cursor.  If you want the
notepad graphical way, gVim and others do it just fine and still let you work
the more productive modal way.

> - You can't change the display to fit more than 80 characters on the screen.

gVim lets you even change the font!  I use gVim on Windows or else I'd hang
myself on the office...

> - You can't have multiple files open at once. (Well, unless you count
> using virtual terminals.)

Vim has had multiple buffers and even sessions for ages now.  I'm sure you're
using just limited ol' vi in some ancient Unix...

> - You can't realistically do syntax hilighting. (Well, again, I suppose
> theoretically you could - but with only 8 colours available, how good is
> that going to look?)

pretty friggin' good.  Try :syntax enable and :colorscheme koehler

I do povray stuff in it and pov SDL syntax highlighting is not usually found or
integrated into most text editors...

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