From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 9:25:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9634037B42A for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 09:24:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NH2X-0002Dc-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 17:24:57 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 728A6117A; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:24:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:24:56 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Editors in base FBSD Message-ID: <20020106172456.GB1316@raggedclown.net> References: <20020106103626.A43775@rochester.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020106103626.A43775@rochester.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:36:26AM -0500, mpd wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:23:07AM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > > > > > I know of vi and ee = very primitive and just primitive > > that are part of the base. Are there any others? > > > > Are there any command line mouse enabled > > cut & past editors in FBSD? > > All of them...copy/paste functionality (via a mouse) is outside > the editor, unless it choose to handle it differently (e.g. StarOffice.) > > (Why is vi primitive? It's very powerful in the hands of > an experienced user, but the unfortunate learning curve > causes many to brush vi aside.) > Nah, all you have to learn about VI is to super-glue your caps-lock key so it can never be depressed :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message