Just today, I was thinking to my self, my life isn't long enough to get fully comfortable with emacs or vi (and I am sure I am going to get hate mail for even saying that :)) So, it makes me happy to see a new, from the looks of it, powerful, text editor for the terminal!
I don't get why people are so pissed that this guy is refusing to fix bugs in his code or add features. I get it that Open Source is often massy because of this kind of attitude, but then again, you get MORE than you pay for it, don't you. If this proves to be a popular project, I am sure a community can organize around it. Not to mention that this kind of editor would primarily be used by programmers and coders, it's only fair that at least some of the people who use the software for free would get to contribute to it as well.
Vim is not as hard as it seems, the learning curve is kind of steep but nothing too crazy to get the basic things going, it's just a different approach to text editing. Don't get me wrong I would never use it (me, myself!) as a IDE, but as text editor, it's pretty great.
I don't want to start a flamewar about this, I don't find them interesting, I just want to point out that knowing Vim is extremely useful if you're going to be shh'ing into remote machines as it is basically ubiquitous.
I agree that flamewars about editors are not interesting, so I won't say too much, other than:
For SSH'ing, another editor which is (nearly) always there, and which I find convenient, is nano - and it displays its common shortcuts at the bottom, so you don't have to learn anything. I still use nano, even on my mac locally, to edit the odd file quickly in the terminal.
I agree, Vim is nice to know. But to each his own, I like the Sublime Text style editors, and having something like it but in terminal sounds really cool to me. Wonder how it will support multiple cursors, have yet to try it.
I don't get why people are so pissed that this guy is refusing to fix bugs in his code or add features. I get it that Open Source is often massy because of this kind of attitude, but then again, you get MORE than you pay for it, don't you. If this proves to be a popular project, I am sure a community can organize around it. Not to mention that this kind of editor would primarily be used by programmers and coders, it's only fair that at least some of the people who use the software for free would get to contribute to it as well.