Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:31:03 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (Mark Ovens) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <199911241831.MAA29741@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <19991124021400.A319@marder-1> from Mark Ovens at "Nov 24, 1999 02:14:00 am"
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Mark Ovens babbled:
> From mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Tue Nov 23 20:13:53 1999
> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 06:32:36PM -0600, Jerry Dunham wrote:
> > Mark Ovens babbled:
> >> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:40:41 +0000
> >
> >> Look in the editors section of the ports/pcakages, read the
> >> descriptions, install one or more, try them out, then delete the
> >> ones you don't like. This is not flippant answer; editors are a
> >> real personal preference (religious wars are fought over vi versus
> >> emacs) so only you can know which you consider a good choice for
> >> your needs. Personally I use vi(1) all the time, even on Windows
> >> boxes :)
> >
> > Ditto. In fact, I have both vim and Lemmy on my NT notebook, and have
> > found Lemmy to be the best implementation of vi I've tried yet. Porting
> > or cloning Lemmy to FreeBSD would be a Good Idea, but I can't program
> > myself out of a wet paper bag. Does anyone else here have any experience
> > with Lemmy?
>
> I did once e-mail the author, James Iuliano, and suggest this but
> got no response ;) Mind you, gvim is a pretty good substitute.
Perhaps I ought to try. James at least owes me a reply, since I paid for
my copy of Lemmy. I suppose I'll wait and see whether I get any other
supporting comments from this list. I'd like to be able to tell him that
there are more than two of us in the FreeBSD world who have an interest.
> > Oh, and Lemmy doesn't recognize :viusage. I guess nothing's perfect.
>
> Probably because it's a Windows program and has Windows help files
Since Windoze help files are generally NO-help files, I hadn't thought to
look. I just tried it, and Lemmy blew up - consistently. Tell me again
how Windoze help is going to make life better. :-(
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