>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.

BTW, forgot to say I've been playing 2D and 3D games (heavily direction-oriented) for years, accounting thousands of hours, and the most comfortable keys were WSAD (EDSF would be exactly the same, only more comfortable when you're writing, not playing games, as your hands are closer together). I *always* use WSAD if I can.

Either way, having directions in the home row isn't worth having  a modal editor. You have two extra keystrokes for every piece of shit arrow you want to press, and you have to press Esc which requires you to move your hands out of it just like the arrow keys, so stop smoking.