Vim

Have I mentioned that part of my Linuxification of XP involved installed the Windows version of vim. I think I have it installed at least twice because it appears in Cygwin too (the ultimate Linuxification...it is the Unix shell emulator)Essentially the whole thing is a bit nuts. It's a text editor that uses various modes - you go into one mode to write your text and another to do your editing. This frees up the keyboard so that a whole stream of short editing commands can be brought into use.

Vim-users love to talk of its power and I can see the potential but the draw back is remebering the various commands...you've also got to be a bit aware of whether the Caps lock has been hit or it will start acting rather strangely. I type away happily and all of a sudden find that something is "recording" or the cursor is jumping off somewhere and the text simply isn't appearing

It is getting a bit more easy to use. It certainly makes a change from Notepad. A long time ago I got into Notetab Lite - that also had a load of features but I never bothered to read them and its true editors are really a programmers tyope of thing. But I still like the speed of loading, amongst other things, that you get with text editors.

(I wrote this in Vim and had a bit of trouble trying to work out my commands to get into onto a clipboard to paste into blogger...got there in the end obviously)