Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 23:39:48 -0400 From: "NO DATA" <anorak@topsecret.net> To: "Rusty" <irisinc@gci.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: (vi!) RE: Editors?? Message-ID: <NDBBJDFMIMOCFNNCEKADEEEOCOAA.anorak@topsecret.net> In-Reply-To: <37B2C206.47AE543E@gci.net>
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You'll limit yourself. What happens when you need to edit a file on a machine without PICO? I'm not religious about it (and I don't want to start/participate in a flame war either), but I've found that the US$6.95 vi Editor Pocket Reference from O'reilly was the most helpful of all of the books on my shelf. After about two weeks of editing in just vi it's all so very simple now. I've pulled down one more barrier. And now I can deftly edit any file on practically any *nix machine I have access to. You'll *never* get that with PICO. Even ee which comes with FBSD isn't uinversal (although a heck of a lot easier than vi). If you just want to set up the best network, fine .. but if you ever plan on applying those skills outside your immediate realm, consider learnig to use the tools that you know will actually be at your disposal when it counts. > > I'm new to Free BSD, been running various Linux distributions for a > couple of years now. I came to FreeBSD because I wanted to > set up the > best network. > > I have one question which I hope will not start a flame > war; Is there a > text editor for freebsd that is like PICO, if possible. If > I have to > learn and use vi, I'll go back to Windoz. > > If someone knows where I can get a port for this or any > simple editor > please respond. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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