From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 26 15:18:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from canonware.com (canonware.com [207.20.242.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A0A2153C6 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:18:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Received: (qmail 74350 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Jan 2000 23:15:56 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:15:56 -0800 From: Jason Evans To: Wes Peters Cc: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-ID: <20000126151556.E73462@sturm.canonware.com> References: <388F3254.CF5F1C41@softweyr.com> <388F7DDD.EFB73428@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <388F7DDD.EFB73428@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 04:06:05PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 04:06:05PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Cut and paste in X still tends to mangle tabs and such. vi and xterm make > a workable environment, Emacs makes a better one. I'd love to see something > better come along, but I've been waiting for that for a number of years. screen (ports/misc/screen) does wonders for the type of work environment you're describing in combination with vi. Personally, I'm a hard-core emacs user, but xterm/screen/vi is actually an appealing alternative. Seriously, check screen out. It is *very* worth spending a few hours to get used to it. Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message