Linux text editors

[Neil Cherry]

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:16 AM -0600 Guy Fraser 
> <guy at incentre.net> wrote:
> 
>> Emacs can do a lot of things and do them well, but it operates very
>> differently that the editors you noted, and would require a steep 
>> learning curve.

> I learned it a million years ago using the built-in tutorial. Seemed 
> pretty straightforward. The basic commands were pretty intuitive. 
> Control with F, B, N, P goes Forward character, Backward character, Next 
> line, Previous line. More advanced commands could be learned using the 
> apropos feature. (What commands operate on windows? "Esc-x-apropos 
> window".)

Hey that's how I remembered it, made it easy when Cisco decided to to those
same key strokes for their command line editing. :-)

> I learned it back before the introduction of the luxurious VT100 
> terminal, when keyboards were much more limited. No arrow keys, and 
> maybe one or two function keys. Maybe no numeric keypad. No meta/alt 
> keys, and only one Control key on the left. F1 was not yet the universal 
> help key.

I remember this really weird terminal that had all the basic keys
alpha-numeric, shift and control. No Enter, carriage return, line feed
or escape. That's where I first used emacs. Everything was control this
or control that. When the first PC keyboards came out I was driven
nuts by the fact that the shift and control were in the opposite
locations!

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