From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 5:39:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B635155AF for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 05:39:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12C0kT-000PZ3-00; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:38:41 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA48519; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:38:41 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:38:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: James A Wilde Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice In-Reply-To: <00f701bf64cd$95186360$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, James A Wilde wrote: >Thoughts, yes! > >I asked nearly the same question a few months ago. The conclusion I came to >was: stick to vi for two reasons: Well, i think i have to agree with you. I installed vim last night, and a friend gave me a few lines for the config file... I now have color context highlighting, c indentation, and more! I love this editor! Small, fast, (not like emacs) like you said, on every machine.... The color looks great, the commands are very powerful and efficient. I really picked up the basics fast. I think i've decided... :-) -=> jm <=- "I've done questionable things, also extraordinary things.... Revel in your time!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message