Eero Ahonen escreveu:
> Invisible wrote:
>> I'm just astonished that after all the editor wars, there still isn't a
>> Unix text-mode editor that's actually *easy* to use, that's all...

Ease of usage is highly overrated and subjective.

There's nothing easier in usage than notepad-style editing and yet it 
fails solemnly under heavy text editing conditions.  It's perfect for 
your aunt writing down cookie receipts, not for a programmer editing 
lots of structured source code, doing lots of refactoring, selecting big 
chunks of text, making repetitive actions and jumping up and down 
through large pages of text.

Such tasks are handled with much more ease with vim/emacs, while people 
using notepad for its "ease of use" are suffering badly, without even 
noticing it or believing it could be any different...

Steeper learning curve also means there's much more there to learn to 
help you, and it pays.  But people don't like to learn, they enjoy 
suffering and pain.

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