From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 21:23: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8D437B423 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA65642; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:22:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39CC3016.4385674E@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:22:46 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-092 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francesco Casadei Cc: Erin , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl/cgi Authorintg tools References: <000201c0243a$df98a580$1375a8c0@deadbbs.com> <20000922191259.B1550@goku.kasby> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't want to start a holy war here, and in fact, I wouldn't mind to find a fancy editor myself. I've stuck with vi because it's available on all the platforms we use at work. > Try Emacs. A brief list of features: I'ved used emacs, every time I use it I feel like I've dragged out my entire whomping multi-hundred dollar tool kit to drive a screw. > * syntax coloring I have to say, I kind of miss this. I could drag out vim, but installing it on X large number of other machines just doesn't do it for me. > * on-the-fly expressions indenting Our vi, and in fact almost all implementations of vi support this. I have the following in my .bashrc: export EXINIT='set autoindent iclower' which has made my life immensely easier. > * it shows you matching brackets while you're typing (e.g. when you > type ')' emacs will rapidly move the cursor to the matching '(' > and then returns to the insertion point) vi does this as well. Anyone who uses vi regularly would be well served by /usr/ports/editors/vilearn. It's a self-paced tutorial that will teach you some simple tricks that will undoubtedly save you hours of frustration. Good luck, Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message