On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:17:10PM +0000, Paul Tansom wrote:
Yay, thanks for that pointer to the Firefox extension, I'm off to install it now :) The number of times I end up with strange characters in text I'm editing in a web input for is no odds to anyone. Using a Windows/GUI editor is, for me anyway, such a slow and cumbersome way of working because my hand is forever heading off to the mouse, or shifting down to the cursor keys, to get at various functions.
It's a godsend! My usual mistake is to hit the escape key and lose everything!
[snip]
One day I'll try Emacs, because it would be nice to actually be able to compare it to Vim properly. All I ever do is fire it up and then find I can't do anything, even get out, so I kill the process. I can never remember the exit incantation! With Vi I had a short crib sheet for the basics that got me going in minutes. I should really find one for Emacs before I next fire it up!
Vile/Xvile is actually based on microemacs so 'under the hood' it's quite Emacs-like. It can use perl as an extension language.