Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:53:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

... it's often nice not to have to move your hands out of home
position.

That “advantage” makes no sense to me. My hands move all over the place --
to the various parts of the keyboard, and to the mouse, and other controls
-- wherever I need to operate something. Going back to home position is
something you can do by touch, very quickly, anyway. (That’s what those
little nubs are for.)

For sheer economy of keystrokes, vi(m) is hard to beat.

 
One keystroke is pretty cheap in the scheme of things.

You were saying ... ?

...  And not all
editors can easily do things I use a lot in vi(m), such as placing the
cursor on a brace, bracket, or parenthesis and jumping to the
corresponding one.

Surely all the common editors can do that. What about moving between lines
with matching indentation -- handy for Python programming?

The thing that really irritates me is the effort made by a lot of
software (particularly under Windows) ...

Yet another reason not to use Windows ... ?