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Are there any other modal text editors in wide use? All others I can think of have you strongly in one mode (insertion, typing) and you only drop out of it if
by scelerat 13y ago
Are there any other modal text editors in wide use?
All others I can think of have you strongly in one mode (insertion, typing) and you only drop out of it if you hold down a command key (Control, or pull down a menu, etc.). Before GUIs it was a lot more common to have 'entry mode' and command mode in your text editor/word processor, but vim is the only one I know of now where 'insert' is merely one mode, and by default you're in a movement/command mode.
Not saying it's bad; I spend most of my day in vim and wouldn't have it any other way.
- pydave 13y agoemacs + evil? Aside from vi-emulation, I haven't seen many editors that heavily use modal editing.