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Originally Posted by HarryT
Oh, it's a "vi" clone, is it? I know "vi" like the back of my hand; used it for years on Unix systems during my "former life" as a radio astronomer.
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It's a vi clone in the sense that it's a superset of vi (almost - a very few legacy features are dropped), but it's far more than just that.
If you want a full-featured, multi-windowed programmer's text editor with the gloriously efficient vi way of working (modal, with the very logical orthogonal operator+motion approach) then you need to look at Vim.
For someone who likes to keep their hands on the keyboard, there's nothing to beat it in terms of editing power per keystroke (IMHO, of course

).
As you're already a vi user, the mind-set shift that novices need to undergo to get the hang of the vi approach won't be needed - the rest of the learning curve is just picking up the added bits as you need them.
There is a bit of a learning curve for novices, but once you understand the vi way of working (which is highly logical, so can be picked up quickly) the rest comes pretty easily.
(Oh goody - editor wars on mobileread

)
/JB