From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 13 22:52:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ivory.lm.com (ivory.telerama.com [205.201.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0DCE1504E for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evs@telerama.com) Received: from mvehpc (d15-40.dyn.telerama.com [205.201.42.104]) by ivory.lm.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA23629; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:51:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <051801bee618$ff9f8300$6f27abcd@mvehpc.evs.slip.lm.com> Reply-To: "Mikhail V. Evstiounin" From: "Mikhail V. Evstiounin" To: "Ben Smithurst" , "Rusty" Cc: Subject: Re: Editors?? Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:51:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can try: Joe's Own Editor v2.8 ** Copyright (C) 1995 Joseph H. Allen It's WordPerfect like (I mean commands), but could be easily adjusted for lots different styles, including PICO. I was able to instal it on HP-UX 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, AIX, Dynix/PTX, SCO, FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc. :-) This is a direct quote from a man page: JOE(1) JOE(1) Name joe - Joe's Own Editor Syntax joe [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]... jstar [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]... jmacs [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]... rjoe [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]... jpico [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]... Description JOE is a powerful ASCII-text screen editor. It has a "mode-less" user interface which is similer to many user- friendly PC editors. Users of Micro-Pro's WordStar or Borland's "Turbo" languages will feel at home. JOE is a full featured UNIX screen-editor though, and has many fea- tures for editing programs and text. JOE also emulates several other editors. JSTAR is a close immitation of WordStar with many "JOE" extensions. JPICO is a close immitation of the Pine mailing system's PICO editor, but with many extensions and improvements. JMACS is a GNU-EMACS immitation. RJOE is a restricted version of JOE, which allowes you to edit only the files specified on the command line. Although JOE is actually five different editors, it still requires only one executable, but one with five different names. The name of the editor with an "rc" appended gives the name of JOE's initialization file, which determines the personality of the editor. JOE is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. I have no plans for turning JOE into a commercial or share-ware product. JOE is available over the Internet by anonymous FTP from ftp.std.com, file: src/editors/joe*.tar.Z. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Smithurst To: Rusty Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Editors?? >Rusty wrote: > >> 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. > >Please consider learning a more advanced editor than pico, either vi or >emacs. I've never got along well with emacs, but vi really isn't hard to >learn. But if you really don't want to, no-one can force you, and you've >had enough answers about where to get pico already. What don't you like >about vi? When I started with FreeBSD, I used ee to edit things, or >sometimes pico. I can tell you that vi is *much* nicer than both of >those put together, once you learn the basics. > >-- >Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D >ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message