From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 25 16:19: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB7714BD3 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:18:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from morgaine.avalon.com (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA20462; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 19:19:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19991025191740.0093ed60@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 19:18:55 -0400 To: Joel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rkZyaw?= == , From: John Subject: Re: easy to use editor and CVSUP In-Reply-To: <000d01bf1f3e$6022f3c0$b1102fc2@gsten.hh.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Maybe try checking out pico? As far as I know in order to install pico, you need to install pine (from the mail ports). While causing you to install another mail program, it does give you simple interface instructions at the bottom of the screen.=20 --John >This isn't really for -questions so I'm trying it here. > >I installed 3.2 RELEASE a while back since I'm going to put up a server. >Everything was just dandy and I used emacs under X as my primary editor. > >It's now time to setup the server which will be managed through SSH and=20 >nothing else. >the install went fine and I went on to install Emacs since I'm not really= =20 >happy about using vi. >Emacs went on to install gmake and the on to Xfree86, something I really=20 >don't want since the server won't even have a monitor attached to it. >So my question is: Is there any easy to use editor that doesn't require=20 >Xfree86? something along the lines of emacs or the good old edit in= MS-DOS... > >Second question is: > >Can I go directly on to the make world after CVSUP has successfully= finished? > >Best regards > >Joel Bj=F6rk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message