Originally posted by mc68k
and elvis, vile, etc. thanks to all those crazy unix nerds.
I would recommend the book that pimentoLoaf suggests. I read it through on a recent 9-day vacation an have learned lots. I have the opposite problem as you guys w/emacs. I was going to suggest vi, but I know of almost no one who can use it properly. It is very powerful though.
For example, to get rid of the ^M's at the end of every line you could have typed:vi does have a lot to remember. I tried emacs and it made me appreciate vi. But the battle will always rage on just like Ford vs. Chevy, etc.Code::%s/.$//g
I would rather use ed than vi, even if vi is a shell for ed. Recently, while using cygwin, I couldn't get vi to work and I resorted to Notepad. Then, the instructor asked me to help other people use vi.
My first 32-bit C compiler was Mark Williams C on the Atari ST and they had what they called micro shell and micro emacs. Before Win3.0, I used Epsilon on DOS because it was so close to emacs. Then, there was PerfectWriter on CP/M, which also used the key bindings of emacs. Borland's editor can also be configured that way.