maybe the VI editing mode in kate can be of assistance ;-)
It would of course make you less cool, using a GUI text editor (and it won't work on console-only systems) but at least many of the nice VI features are there...
Posted Jan 10, 2011 9:43 UTC (Mon) by loevborg (guest, #51779)
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Kate's vi mode is actually very intersting, thanks. Using a GUI toolkit is really a necessity to have proportional fonts. For convenience of other readers, here's a link: http://kate-editor.org/kate-vi-mode/