[CLUE-Tech] Reliable writing editors?

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Hey, what's up with the +1 stuff? You know that you can move down with
the j key. Also, the k key moves up. Did you know that the arrow keys
also move the cursor?

I usually use gvim for coding C, HTML and other text files. This is vim
with a gtk gui. BTW the mouse also works for editing text.

For java work I use Eclipse (and sometimes gvim). This has typical CUA
style cursor movements. Over the last year or so I have found that most
of the coders at work seem to prefer vi commands over CUA, and make less
use of IDE's. It is a pity that Eclipse and other IDE's don't have vi
commands. They seem to have emacs key mapplings, that are easier to
code.

Sometimes it gets confusing when IDE's and that other word processor
does not recognize vi commands.

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On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:14:11 -0700
Jeffery Cann <fabian at jefferycann.com> wrote:

> On Monday 03 February 2003 08:40 am, David Anselmi wrote:
> 
> > Why do you want to use the mouse to move around prose?  There are
> > plenty of commands to move around without, even in prose.  Sorry I'm
> > not much help with habits.
> 
> Because I move around the text enough that it's more efficient to use
> a mouse to reposition the cursor than to:  1) get into movement mode
> (ESC) and type 1+ movement commands.
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