Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 21:56:05 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Editors in base FBSD Message-ID: <200201070456.g074u5x04924@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20020107015648.GB28691@moo.holy.cow>
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:56:48 -0500 parv wrote:
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| let me put my us 2 cents worth ... for three years i used the ispf
| editor on os/390. and every time i had edited a file, i longed for vi.
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| editing on a machine (local pc) other than where files were located
| (mainframe) was more time consuming, even if i would get to use my
| favourite editor, than using the ispf and cursing it.
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Emacs has a mode called (I think) ange-ftp. In this mode it uses FTP to
hide the fact that you are editing files on a remote computer.
It does not take too much creativity to do a similar thing by
wrapping VI in an scp sandwich to do a similar thing.
Still I understand the OP's lament. It is inconvenient to have to use an
environment that you are not familiar with. I find myself typing all kind
of 'k's and 'j's when I edit something using wordpad or some other
bit or redmondware.
--
Chris Fedde
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