Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:30:08 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Simple Editor for a newbie? Message-ID: <20010827213007.D124775@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010828021942.A50163@student.uu.se>; from "Erik Trulsson" on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:19:43AM References: <3B89D9CA.9F0ECF29@citystamp.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com> <20010828021942.A50163@student.uu.se>
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:19:43AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:57:08PM -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote: [snip] > > I know some of you will say that VI is the only way but please understand > > that at the beginning VI is very hard to master. We do not want to develop > > a perl scrip for this since we wanted first to feel comfortable with an > > editor we can use on daily life to take a look at logs, configuration > > files, scripts etc. > > > > Any suggestion? > > > My personal favourite text-editor is 'joe'. Available from ports. > It is quite easy to use but still fairly powerful. > It might not be quite as powerful as vi or emacs but it is IMO a lot > easier to use. > I "second that emotion" la la la laaaaa ;) Gee that dates me... Jorge ... from one newbie to another, don't use *anything* else but Joe at the onset of your Unix escapade. The stress and convolution levels are high enough -- Joe is a fresh breeze. Some say Jed is "familiar" and easy to use as well -- but I have no first hand knowledge of it. L8r... -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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