Subj : Re: SlyEdit
To   : Accession
From : Gamgee
Date : Sun Nov 30 2025 20:11:53

-=> Accession wrote to Mike Powell <=-

 > I have monkeyed around with vi(m) a time or two and, as a result, I am
 > also very biased towards nano.  ;)

 Ac> It doesn't matter how many times I've used vi(m), I will /always/ think
 Ac> that I'm in edit mode right when I open it. Just a natural reaction, or
 Ac> something, but I start arrowing around and try to type something, just
 Ac> to have it yell at me and realize that I have to get out of
 Ac> read/command mode.

Same here.

 Ac> .. and I know you can launch vim in "easy" mode (-y), but I never
 Ac> remember to do that and that's completely besides the point, because at
 Ac> that point you may as well just use nano. ;)

Hahaha, yep.  I use nano for nearly every text-editing task (including 
writing this message from within MultiMail).  The one 
use I still have for vim is that it can deal with "Ctrl-A" codes in a 
SBBS file.  In case it wasn't widely known, you can add a Ctrl-A code in 
vim by first doing "Ctrl-V", then "Ctrl-A", then the actual color code 
or whatever.  I don't know another "plain" text editor that does that.  
Very useful to me every now and then.



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