Looking for a word processor with a vi interface
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I played around with vimenu, which is a vi interface on top of Microsoft Word. I loved the concept, unfortunately Word is an unwieldy beast and this vi interface causes it to be both slow and easy to crash, so I had to give it up.
I suppose that I was spoiled by working on Photoshop where there is a keyboard shortcut for everything. Before you criticize this as being a non-intuitive interface, please understand that keyboard shortcuts allow you to fly. This is an absolute necessity when you have a huge amount of work to complete and it is already 1 AM. This also made me regard the mouse as evil.
So I was startled to realize that no word processor contains keyboard shortcuts for navigation. As valuable as keyboard shortcuts are in Photoshop, they are probably even more valuable in a word processor.
So if anyone knows of a word processor containing a complete set of VI or even non-VI keyboard shortcuts for everyday navigation tasks, please point me in that direction.
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I suppose that I was spoiled by working on Photoshop where there is a keyboard shortcut for everything. Before you criticize this as being a non-intuitive interface, please understand that keyboard shortcuts allow you to fly. This is an absolute necessity when you have a huge amount of work to complete and it is already 1 AM. This also made me regard the mouse as evil.
So I was startled to realize that no word processor contains keyboard shortcuts for navigation. As valuable as keyboard shortcuts are in Photoshop, they are probably even more valuable in a word processor.
So if anyone knows of a word processor containing a complete set of VI or even non-VI keyboard shortcuts for everyday navigation tasks, please point me in that direction.
Thanks