The End of the Editor Wars

dugan · 05-19-2015, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Seriously, who uses Caps/Lock anyways?

I used to use CapsLock for auto-run in DOOM.

astrogeek · 05-19-2015, 07:48 PM

I use caps-lock to switch between western and cyrillic keymaps.

Alpha90 · 05-25-2015, 08:29 AM

Does ed not get an honorable mention at least as it predates the editor wars and still is in almost every standard GNU/Linux install.

fatmac · 05-25-2015, 10:40 AM

But we are talking about editors for programmers by picking on vi(m) & emacs.

A sysadmins favourite, (& mine), was & still is mc, (midnight commander), which has an editor built in.
(This can also be called using mcedit <filename>.)

Head_on_a_Stick · 05-25-2015, 10:57 AM

Real programmers use a magnetised needle and a steady hand...

https://xkcd.com/378/

dugan · 05-25-2015, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Alpha90

Does ed not get an honorable mention at least as it predates the editor wars and still is in almost every standard GNU/Linux install.

It's part of vim, and almost certainly part of vi too.

Alpha90 · 05-25-2015, 07:02 PM

True you have a point. I know that vi was the visual interface to ex which is an extention to ed. But vim has expanded so much passed being an interface for ed it is like a whole different editor.