From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 11 17:43:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail19b.rapidsite.net (mail19b.rapidsite.net [161.58.134.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A74137B405 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.pythonemproject.com (198.104.176.109) by mail19b.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 048347147 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:50:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D0698A8.9C047411@pythonemproject.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:41:12 -0700 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: gui editors - mostly just griping (you've been warned) I gotta vent somewhere. References: <20020611095736.A16127@lpt.ens.fr> <20020611230746.GH45825@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2002-06-11 09:57 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > I thought vi and emacs were the only Unix editors anyway... > > These are lies of the Emacs and vi folk. > The only *real* editor of UNIX is ed(1). > Here's the proof: > > $ head -56 /usr/local/share/emacs/20.7/etc/JOKES | tail -6 > When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi > *and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, > 'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor > that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time. > > Ed, man! !man ed > > /me ducks and runs > > - Giorgos > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message Will it syntax highlight FORTRAN? Thats what led me to nedit originally. Now I prefer it for everything. Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message