Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:21:32 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Program recommendations Message-ID: <15193.47644.511679.315402@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <58469629@toto.iv>
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Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu> types: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 jeff@tsunamicreek.com wrote: > > > Shell > > bash or tsch shell, matter of opinion. > A handy feature is the [TAB] auto completion of filenames. > I know bash has this, not sure of tsch??? Yes, it does. Personally, I use bash, but I'm checking on zsh because it has - among other things - user-configurable autocompletion. So commands like "mail *" and "ssh * uptime" will DTRT. > > > Text editor > > vi or emacs, matter of opinion. > Vi is a great editor. It is standard on almost any UNIX > machine so your skills can be portable :-) Emacs is a great editor (and mail reader, and news reader, and IDE, and ASCII art editor, and ...). It's available for any Unix machine, and lots of OS's other than Unix, so your skills can be *really* portable. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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