From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 23 12: 9:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailg.telia.com (mailg.telia.com [194.22.194.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1E41514E for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:09:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james.wilde@telia.com) Received: from ents02 (t4o73p50.telia.com [62.20.219.170]) by mailg.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA28120 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:09:23 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> From: "James A Wilde" To: References: <38375433.193946BF@sasknow.com> Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:10:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Related question from a greenhorn. Most of my editing is administrative editing of configuration files and = the like. For that vi is a pita with all that programmers crap. The = only functionality I use is x for delete, i for input, Alt $ for goto = eol (I don't know how you get to the beginning) and d with the down = arrow to remove two lines, which means that I often have to insert a = line first in order to delete the one line I need to remove. Is there for UNIX something with the lack of complexity of the DOS edit = program? Simple marking, cutting, pasting is all I really need. Thanks for any tips. mvh/regards James Wilde ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Ryan Thompson [FreeBSD] To: Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 03:08 Subject: Programmers' editor? > Hi all; >=20 > As many of us here are programmers, and do so in FreeBSD, I reasoned > that this would be great place to find out what console text editors > people use. Before this thread even gets going, though, let's = remember > not to start a flamewar, and move relevant parts to -chat :-) >=20 > I currently use lpe (I downloaded/compiled, but there's a slightly = dated > version available in ports, last time I checked). I do a great deal = of > development in Perl and Java, with copious amounts of C(++) and HTML > thrown in. lpe handles the syntax highlighting for all of these (and > the colours aren't that bad, either :-) The only things I find (more > than slightly) annoying about lpe is its lack of auto-indent, and lack > of configuration options (most, if not all persistent configuration > options must be compiled in). Not-so-slightly annoying is its lack of > automatic indents (i.e. tab width indent after a curly { brace).=20 > Admittedly, lpe isn't built for power, but it turns out to be a good > all-around editor. >=20 > If I had a large programming project sprawled over many source files, > admittedly, I'd move over to something more like emacs... But, for the > day to day edits and smaller projects, lpe is about the best I've = found, > and walks with a very small footprint. >=20 > Feel free to 'disagree' with me; I'd like to see what others are = using. >=20 > --=20 >=20 > Ryan Thompson =20 > VP Technical/Accounts > ryan@sasknow.com > (306) 664-1161 =20 >=20 > SaskNow Technologies =20 > http://www.sasknow.com =20 > #106-380 3120 8th Street East =20 > Saskatoon, Sask S7H 0W2 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message