Linux text editors

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-09-15 19:39, Kenneth Porter whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

> --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".)
>
> 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.
>
>
>
My experience was at the opposite end.  I first learned emacs on a Lisp 
Machine, using the so-called space-cadet keyboard.  
(ctrl-meta-hyper-super-cokebottle!).  But it didn't have a single Help 
key....


-- 
Fritz Whittington
TI Alum - http://www.tialumni.org

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