I can ramble on forever about Emacs, so I won't. I can only speak for vi a little, but the ability to compose a bunch of editing and movement commands together is insanely expressive. These programs are for dealing with raw text in the best possible way. It seems like whomever introduced you to them did you a serious disservice by not giving you the tools you need to get yourself to happily editing text. These programs both have a solid lineage of 40 years behind them.Īnd even 20 years ago they had decent help, which was only a keystroke away. But you should know that these editors have heavy duty history. I'm sorry you had brutal text editing experiences with vi and emacs. Except, that book is in Dutch, which barely helps since you can't read Dutch either (although it's easier to learn). Oh, I forgot - if you complain enough about the Japanese book, people will eventually point you to another.
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I've seen people reboot their computers because they couldn't even figure out how to quit. Vi is the least approachable program of all time. But it doesn't, and you're expected to use it anyway. NOTHING ELSE IN COMPUTING uses the same bizarre outer space conventions as vi, and there's no reason to learn them, or any good reason vi can't use sane conventions. Everyone could just make a quick translation and move over to English at any time, but they won't, for reasons that basically boil down to inertia and arrogance. There are other books that do the same thing, but you need to all be on the same book to get along. Even though this would be easy, everyone else in the field has already learned Japanese just so they can read the book, and if you complain about this, they sneer at you and call you a noob. There's no point to learning Japanese except to read this one book.Īnd you have to do it! Because nobody will make a translation, or a modern version of the book, that is applicable to all of the situations the old version is useful for. In fact, for the purpose of this, we'll say it's a dead language. Nothing else in the field is written in Japanese, and nothing new is being written in Japanese. Except, there's a very important book everyone uses, that's written in Japanese, and you have to be able to read Japanese to be able to use it. Everything in this field takes place in, let's say, English. Imagine that you are in a certain field of study.