This discussion of different editors is quite interesting. I tend to move between nano and emacs, which I'm just learning now. I haven't done a lot of cutting and pasting, so I suppose in that sense Nano is limited, but it does seem to work nicely with speakup. On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Albert E. Sten-Clanton wrote: >> One thing bad about linux editorsYou have to learn them. I can switch from >> notepad to TextPad to UltraEdit without having to figure out what keystrokes >> to use with each program. Home puts you at the beginning of the line. >> Shift+cursordown marks the line. Shift+Del cuts the line. Shift+Ins pastes >> it. Control+f,s saves the file. >> >> They all have their own keys for the fancy stuff but you can do the basics >> without learning anything about the editor. >> > > That's a very fair point indeed. Sometimes, I forget I'm editing with emacs or vim and hit one of those Windows editor keys. Derrr! > > One thing I like a lot about using one of the Linux editors is that I can just type its name and the file to bring up. It reminds me of the old DOS days, when I did the same with WordPerfect. If there's a way to do that in Windows, I don't know it. With it, I have to be careful which directory it's looking in for a file, or which directory became the default if I had the temerity to put something in other than "my documents." > > Al > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
