From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 21:53:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E7314FBF for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 21:53:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (j39.klt31.jaring.my [161.142.169.233]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11567; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:23:09 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00496; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:08:28 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:08:28 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice Message-ID: <20000122150828.D390@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:39:12PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 21 January 2000 at 23:39:12 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Not to start a war or anything, but i'm trying to decide on a fast > powerful editor. I've been using joe, and i just started learning > vi, and i like it so far. But there are new editors and new > versions of vi that seem to have a lot to offer. I've narrowed it > down to vi, an enhanced version of vi (vile or vim?) uemacs, or joe. > ANy thoughts? If you want a really powerful editor, and you don't want to relearn the way you think, you'd be better off using real Emacs than uemacs, which is a bit of a toy. vi and its derivatives are also powerful, but they require a lot of rethinking, and I don't think they're as powerful anyway. > I'd like to be able to cut and paste within the editor and between > xterms. You can only do that up to a point with vi. vi doesn't understand X, so it runs in an xterm. Emacs in X mode will copy the last cut text to the X cut buffer, so you can paste it into an xterm, but also use it in Emacs. > I really like the efficiency of vi so far, but i have a long ways to > go before i am proficient. It's a steep curve. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.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