21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)

You can blame my conversion to C from Pascal. When I first encountered Joe, I was competent (but not expert) in VI, and still had the Wordstar keybindings programmed into my fingers from years of using Turbo Pascal. ^K B, ^K K, ^K C...

But, as I used VI more and more with C, especially fun shortcuts such as <% and >% to change block indentation, or d% to delete a block (and p to put it back somewhere else), it edged those bindings out of my head. That's also around the same time my default C coding style changed to put the opening curly bracket on its own line, lined up with the closing bracket. These shortcuts work much better with that style than the K&R style.

(Whoo hoo... I can combine an editor debate into a C style debate!)