Re: An 'ae' testimony
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On Sun, 23 May 1999 03:58:32 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
>know ksh scripting. For these people, ae is a perfectly valid editor, not
>too different from vi, joe, pico, ee, or anything similar (by look).
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>Ae is an editor decent enough for the bare minimum cathegory... but you're
>free to disagree.
After all of this I took a look at both ae and ee. Both lack something
that I think needs to be addressed. AE's movement keys don't appear to have
any rhyme or reason to them. They're not grouped together and not in any
direction.
AE's isn't either, but at least they're mnemonic. ^Up, ^Down, ^Left, ^Right.
I could settle for ae *if* the keys were rethought a little, putting movement
together, gross movement together, editing together in some mnemonic fashion
which is somewhat obvious with the help up there. For example, ^E, ^S, ^D,
^X for up, left, right, down respectively. It looks odd, but those keys are
grouped together on the left hand in a diamond which lends itself to an
obvious use once one looks at it. Then place word left/right on ^A/^F.
Things like that.
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