Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 06:53:22 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: shelton@sentry.granch.ru, u98jobj@stud.hh.se Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: easy to use editor and CVSUP Message-ID: <199910261353.GAA25678@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991026092305.shelton@sentry.granch.ru>
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>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:23:05 +0700 (NOVST) >From: "Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@sentry.granch.ru> >> So my question is: Is there any easy to use editor that doesn't require Xfree86? something along the lines of emacs >> or the good old edit in MS-DOS... >I think, ee is good editor. In my ordynary work I don't use ee, but at fresh installed FreeBSD it's good. Determining what aspects of an editor are good vs. bad is an extremely subjective matter. It is possible to use Emacs without an X Window display. I have no idea what "good old edit in MS-DOS" is/was like. I tend to use "vi" because I'm used to it -- enough that I find ee extremely counterintuitive and confusing. One of my colleagues pointed out "vim" to me, and I've started poking around with it. There are over 50 entries in /usr/ports/editors; culling variant versions, that makes on the order of 40 or so fairly distinct editors at hand. Then there are ed, sed, ex, and vi that are distributed with the system. And pico is part of the "pine" package. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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