To be more specific, if Emacs would have more familiar keybindings for Windows/Mac users I probably use it. For example from the manual http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~br/courses/cs699-autumn2013/refs/... :
> C-e end of line
Why not just "end"?
> M-v scroll down one page
I would like to use "page-down" instead.
> C-Space Set beginning mark (for region marking for example)
Really? Why not just press "Shift"?
ok, ok, I know that old keyboards didn't have all these buttons, and also Windows "familiar" key bindings were defined much later. So Emacs and Vim developers did what they did. But why should I spend so many time in learning all these oldschool workarounds?
Yes, I want terminal-based editor. But the rest of the killer features of Emacs or Vim are not so unique these days. I can obtain near the same level of functionality and flexibility in any modern window-based editor such as Sublime Text or IntelliJ Idea. Currently I'm using this one as my primary code editor - just for text, not for Java. And I find that it has even wider range of handy code manipulation commands than Emacs provides.
So, returning to my question. I would prefer to choose terminal-based code editor. And it is ok if it will be differ from the editors that I use - I'm ready to spend time in learning new stuff. But I'm not ready to learn code editor completely from scratch. That's why I rejected Emacs. ok, maybe I was wrong, so I would like to hear your opinion.
I just tried the keys you mentioned in Emacs: they all worked (except for selecting with Shift). So End takes you to the end of the line, you can scroll using PgUp and PgDown. The reason that they are not used is that you need to get your hands of the home row to use them, which makes them unbearably slow for people used to quick editing.
I hope you'll give it a chance.
Selecting-with-shift works in Emacs too.
[It was added a few years ago so might not work if you've got an ancient version installed...]
Maybe you can tell us why you need it to work in a console. Do you only want to edit files over there? Could try sshfs. If you're able to use X11 on your servers you might look into X11 forwarding through ssh to use Sublime too.
Well, I'm using Windows on my primary machine when I'm at home, and Mac when I'm outside. It's not a secret that Windows is bad as a development environment. Even it's file system has issues in mapping to unix fs. So I prefer to keep all my development things on remote Linux machine, and work through the SSH. That's why I'm interesting in terminal-based editors.
It's clear you haven't even tried it.
Take a deep breath. Pick and editor and try and use it for a week.
