[CLUE-Tech] Reliable writing editors?

[Randy Arabie]

On Sunday,  2 February 2003 at 22:35:33 -0700, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 18:03:23 -0700
> Jeffery Cann <fabian at jefferycann.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 02 February 2003 02:58 pm, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Jeffery Cann wrote:
> > > > I generally use VIM for most of my work.  However, when I need to
> > > > write prose (often in in text format), I find VIM hard to work with.
> > > >  I love it
> > > > for coding, but not for writing.
> > >
> > > Why? What is it about writing "prose" that makes it unpleasant while
> > > it's a good editor for coding?
> > 
> > Because of my propensity to hit the <ESC> key when I finish typing a
> > word.  Usually, whilst coding, I will need to move around after typing
> > and so I am in the habit of leaving insert mode and moving to the
> > movement mode in vi.
> 
> You know, that's my biggest complaint about using vi. After a long coding
> session, I find myself stabbing the escape key *in other text editing
> contexts* -- usually to no effect, but sometimes, like when in a dialog
> box, where the [Cancel] button is tied to escape as a hotkey, it's very
> annoying. I tend to develop "muscle memory" pretty quickly for
> oft-repeated keystrokes. Switching between vi and anything else can be a
> pain.

DITTO!

We use Netware at work, and our email client is Pegasus.  I get really
frustrated when I finish typing an email and promptly hit the escape
key, because hitting in Pegasus discards the message I've just composed.

Doooh!
-- 
Allons Rouler!
        
Randy
http://www.arabie.org/
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