On Wednesday 29. December 2010 13.18.40 Alban Hertroys wrote:
> Learning Vim is probably time well-spent, but until you do it's
probably not that good a tool for fixing your problem.
>
> Although Vim is indeed a very powerful editor, it's not particularly
easy to use. Unlike your usual editors like Notepad and friends, it's a
command-based editor, meaning you have to execute a command before you
can input or change data. It's an entirely different paradigm than what
you're probably used to (I may assume wrongly here).
Back when I used Windows, my favorite editor was EditPlus
(http://www.editplus.com/). It isn't free, but well worth the 35 bucks.
As a rather casual coder, I'm very satisfied with the simple editor
Kwrite in KDE. It's a sheer delight compared to Notepad.
regards, Leif