From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 7 11:21:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10405 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:21:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gutenberg.uoregon.edu (gutenberg.uoregon.edu [128.223.56.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10387 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:21:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (sharding@localhost) by gutenberg.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA05875; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:25:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:25:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Harding Reply-To: Sean Harding To: jmw cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Editor suggestions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, jmw wrote: > development environments that both Borland and DJGPP's RHide provide. > I am curious what most Unix folk use for the "ideal" programmers editor. I personally like emacs (or xemacs if you don't mind slow and want context coloring) for programming. vi is good if you want to do a quick edit of a configuration file, and some people like it better for programming too (it is much leaner than emacs). Sean -- Sean Harding sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu|"It's not a habit, it's cool. http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ | I feel alive." NeXTMail OK! | --k's Choice To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message