From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 7:36:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CFD37B416 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:36:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2ED7B901A21; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:36:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:36:26 -0500 From: mpd To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Editors in base FBSD Message-ID: <20020106103626.A43775@rochester.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:23:07AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:23:07AM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > > I know of vi and ee = very primitive and just primitive > that are part of the base. Are there any others? > > Are there any command line mouse enabled > cut & past editors in FBSD? All of them...copy/paste functionality (via a mouse) is outside the editor, unless it choose to handle it differently (e.g. StarOffice.) (Why is vi primitive? It's very powerful in the hands of an experienced user, but the unfortunate learning curve causes many to brush vi aside.) mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "AND THEN THEY SAID 'NO ONE LEAVES THIS COMPOUND ALIVE!!'" - Little Girl from "THE MR NUTTY SCHOOL OF PLACEMAT DESIGN" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message