From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 25 18:40:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41CFE16A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 18:40:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6990F43D2F for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 18:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 01E2F66; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 21:40:13 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: zhangweiwu@realss.com References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 25 Dec 2003 21:40:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44wu8kl2sy.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need learning direction suggestions on using editors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 02:40:15 -0000 "Zhang Weiwu" writes: > Should I advance to vim right now or emacs, or is it that I didn't dig > into vi deep enough to release its full power? I wonder how many > programmers are still using 4BSD vi (compare to enchanced vi's)? Maybe > none? Maybe many? The vi in FreeBSD's base system is not derived from the original UC Berkeley distributions. It is actually nvi. [I don't know whether you care about this distinction, but it seemed possible...] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"