Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 12:00:51 -0400 From: "Martin Mactaggart" <martinm@visualedge.com> To: "FreeBSD Newbies" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>, "David Wolfskill" <dhw@whistle.com> Subject: Re: easy to use editor and CVSUP Message-ID: <002201bf1fcb$4d7e53d0$a600a8c0@visualedge.com> References: <199910261353.GAA25678@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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there's also mcedit, but I don't know if it's around for FreeBSD... You
have the linux emulation stuff you can download it from redhat in one form
or another... It's basically like ms-dos's edit.com, but with syntax
highlighting.
vi, IMHO, is pure evil... It screams "I am line editor going through an
identity crisis!!!" at me every time I use it; if I am going to learning
different commands and be switching modes and Lord knows what else, I want
to have just mastered an OS, not a text editor. Just an opinion.
----- Original Message -----
From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To: <shelton@sentry.granch.ru>; <u98jobj@stud.hh.se>
Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 9:53 AM
Subject: RE: easy to use editor and CVSUP
>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:23:05 +0700 (NOVST)
>From: "Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@sentry.granch.ru>
>> So my question is: Is there any easy to use editor that doesn't require
Xfree86? something along the lines of emacs
>> or the good old edit in MS-DOS...
>I think, ee is good editor. In my ordynary work I don't use ee, but at
fresh installed FreeBSD it's good.
Determining what aspects of an editor are good vs. bad is an extremely
subjective matter.
It is possible to use Emacs without an X Window display.
I have no idea what "good old edit in MS-DOS" is/was like.
I tend to use "vi" because I'm used to it -- enough that I find ee
extremely counterintuitive and confusing. One of my colleagues pointed
out "vim" to me, and I've started poking around with it.
There are over 50 entries in /usr/ports/editors; culling variant
versions, that makes on the order of 40 or so fairly distinct editors at
hand.
Then there are ed, sed, ex, and vi that are distributed with the system.
And pico is part of the "pine" package.
Cheers,
david
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