>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.

And what if you wanted to type a letter instead of moving the cursor around? Vim is made for people who like things unnecessarily difficult because they simply MUST use all their intellect to do simple things. I don't care if Vim cooks chili and fries, the poster above me is right.  Use ed or notepad or something, or fuck, an IDE and get on with your actual work.