Maybe try Spacemacs? They have perfected marrying vi to emacs.

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Sadly, yes. Plover is switching from it to Qt around now. I'm looking forward to seeing how much saner the GUI code is the next time I hack at it.

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Oof, yeah, that's pretty unfriendly. :(

Tkinter comes with Python. Pysides/PyQt is full-featured and not so damn ugly. WxPython is ugly and painful, stay way. Toga looks good, but I haven't used it or anything in it yet: http://pybee.org/project/projects/libraries/toga/

Awk would be my first thought, because you have records (newline-separated) with fields (space-separated), and handling that is its specialty.

And RSS just keeps going, too.

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I suspect they are a bit easier to confuse in a non-rhotic dialect.

The character picker replaced it. Like on iOS, press e, get a pop-up with e, è, é, ê, etc. I think I have that disabled, but I don't really rely on key repeat for anything, so wouldn't have noticed.

There's a fun "learn vim" online game. And a good Vim Mastery book I'm still very early in but that has already taught me some small tricks. (I'd actually look the names of these up, but then Cappuccino will lose my focus on this post, and my draft reply.)

Interesting - the sideways face looks ideal for wearing on the underside of the wrist rather than on top.