From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 23 12:30:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1FCF14CB4 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991123152846.07068@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:28:46 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: James A Wilde , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <38375433.193946BF@sasknow.com> <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net>; from James A Wilde on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 09:10:49PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 23 November 1999 at 21:10:49 +0100, James A Wilde wrote: > 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. You'd be surprised: Emacs will do all this. About the only thing you might find unusual is that, by default, it is in insert mode, but you can turn that off (press the "insert" key). It supports mice and cut and paste. It also won't turn your text into a single long line without telling you. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message