[orca-list] Accessible console text editors

[luciano de souza <luchyanus gmail com>]

Hello all,

Seeing a Youtube lesson, I heard something about vi. I tried: vi
myfile.txt. I could easily read a pre-existent file. However, when I
try to create a new one and edit it in the Vi environment, I wasn't
successful. I did the same experience with nano and the result was
similar.

So my question is: are there accessible console text editors?
Sometimes it's useful to edit some short peace of codes when
programming.

I heard also something about Emacs. It's a very powerful tool. I
suppose it fulfills what I am looking for. However, Emacs seems to be
so complex that it's very difficult even to start it. What I am
searching for is simpler than it. I was not able even to configure
Emacs, so I think the learning curve is very, very high.
-- 
Luciano de Souza