emacs characters size and feel

hamster

Have anyone of you come across a small text editor that allows you to copy and cut paste with standard keys ctrl+x ctrl+y and highlight sections of text for cutting using the shift and arrow keys? ... but has a look like emacs..

I played with emacs and the interface is nice - especially the clean sharp small text that's prefect for coding (comes with syntax highlighting). VI is not bad but sometimes for copying and cutting large amounts of text can be slower.

Mutant_Fruit

have you tried... VIM!

Hear the wonders of VIM in a mere 6kB: http://www.vim.org/6k/features.en.txt

hamster

Ok, I'll give VIM another shot.

Though, can you tell if you can call offhand how to highlight (or select) a section of text (say half a paragraph) and cut and paste?

I'll check out the tutorial. Basically I'm sound on using the basics on insert mode but not really on the selections or beyond deleting characters or single lines. But copying and pasting entire sections would be handy.

Blowfish

If you are just doing basic stuff, pico is worth a shot. Its one of the simplest ones, and even has the controls displayed down the bottom.

hamster

Blowfish wrote:

If you are just doing basic stuff, pico is worth a shot. Its one of the simplest ones, and even has the controls displayed down the bottom.

Yeah, I remember using pico when at college - didn't you have to use the mouse to select a region of text before copying or cutting? I like emac's method of setting a mark region with the keys and then cutting a kill region.