WordStar is an old word processor that used Ctrl+Letter key combinations to navigate through the document.
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From the EPP6 help file.ĮditPad Pro supports the classic for people who are used to them. It reminds me of the classical learning curve of text editors : Īctually, the WS emulation is pretty full-featured (including the Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+S etc). Only VIM, emacs and VS can filter and open file by their name only by using keyboard (that's the function I care the most about ) and this is what mattered to me in the end. I also tried various scintilla editors (they often offer too few functionnalities beyond just the scintillarea control ), E (way too java and slow ), notepad2 and notepad++ (nice, but not as good as VIM ). As anything, some things aren't done in the same way of all editors, you have to adapt your style. VIM is really my favorite for php, javascript and ruby. It has some good thing still : it can open really huge files with syntax coloration without lag (vim lag horribly ), it can fold big files and store fragments into other files transparently, it has more powerful plugins too. The shortcuts doesn't make sense to me either. I tried emacs, but I don't like it, it's just an editor with really weird and long to type commands and you have a learn a whole ecosystem to use it truely. It has a price though : My coworkers often makes fun of me because I have shortcuts for absolutly everything (thanks to FARR. I find that hunt and pick with the mouse is not very efficient. I switched to VIM because I wanted to have a pure text editor where everything was accessible without the mouse. The default configuration of VIM is very bad although, it's only good if you're going to use it to edit one file at a time. I often google for one liner for sorting lines, deleting stuff under some special cases. What I use the most : vertical selection, vertical edition, switching files with ease, macros, grep with quickfind window, 'go file' to follow includes.
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The modal behavior is what really makes VIM powerful, because that way you have many more free keys for shortcuts. It has a very simple extension system which means lot's of plugins. The editing stuff in VIM are incredibly superior to VS. I don't like it for php, javascript and web stuff in general : so I use VIM then. Most people who dismay it often doesn't even know it at all : it has macros, auto indenting, uppercase as a shortcuts, excellent tag navigation, and a very nice command line (my favorite command is 'of' which open any file in the project by it's name ). Unlike many I think that VS is a good text editor. Here is my own experience with text editors :Īny editor you choose will have shortcomings.