>emacs

Does anyone know of an editor better than emacs? I'm also wondering how I can change the default encoding to utf-8, on emacs or anything else.

A lot of people think that the point of vim is the fact that it's rudimentary, hard to use, or more "hack-ish".  You are idiots.  You fools who think vim is just --Notepad.  Use vim because in vim you can do anything -- and you can do it fast.

In the University, we had to program on the mainframe.  Our options were vim, nano, and emacs.  This was just 5 years ago --  the programs weren't any different from how they are today.  Our connection was blazing fast.  We just didn't know how to edit efficiently without a mouse.

I picked vim because of the syntax highlighting.  Even a noob like me could make that work in vim, even over a terminal.

At first... I could turn on syntax highlighting and drudge through editing and saving files.
After a week, I could properly get in/out of insert mode.  I could properly save and quit.  I stopped hitting the wrong buttons.
Next week, I started 'w' 'b' 'gg' 'G' '$' '^' 'gw' 'gb'.  Editing was much faster than with nano.  I also started made my own .vimrc file.
Next week, I stopped using the arrow keys all together. 'h' 'j' 'k' 'l' were my friends.  The hands never left home keys.  Editing speed up.  Editing was faster than with a GUI.
Next week, I went through all the options.  I customized .vimrc.  vim work/looked how I wanted it to.  I learned regular expressions.  I would search and substitute my files instead of editing them.
Next week I started using :split.  I could edit multiple files.  I still didn't have to use a mouse or move my hands.  I didn't realise this would be possible to do over a terminal.
Now, I just periodically learn things.  Stuff I used to use the command line for (grep -n "killIntMatrix" *), it turns out vim can do better and faster '[I' .  Macros speed through repetetive edits if I don't know the regex to use.
I still only know what about half the keys do in vim.  I still don't fully understand how to use vim.
What what little I do know, vim is a better editor for most tasks than anything that would force me to unnecisarily use the mouse, keys not close to the home row, 3 buttons at a time.
For anything that could be described as 'code' (shell scripts, HTML, C code, WC3 Jass scripts, &ct), vim's perfect.
For writing my resume, vim is useless.  If you want to know what editor to use for writing a resume or english paper, use Word.


Oh, btw UTF encoding in vim:
set encoding=utf-8

Pulling up the help file for utf encoding
:help utf