Re: text editor suggestion?

Ben Finney wrote:

The two big names in text editing, Vim and Emacs, will both meet these
criteria easily. They also have the advantage that you'll find one or
the other, or both, on just about any Unix system intended for use by
a programmer.

There is also an enormous amount of support for both these editors,
for all manner of text editing tasks, available online. It's a good
idea to learn at least one of them very well, rather than learn a
bunch of less-popular editors for specific tasks.


I'd really like to learn vim, but I spent days just trying to figure out how to get the syntax highlighting and indentation working, where these settings are and how to edit them, and it still doesn't work for me. It just feels so insurmountable that I can't even start working with it yet because I don't know how to tailor the settings.
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