From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 7 10:33:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03300 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zephyr.cybercom.net (zephyr.cybercom.net [209.21.146.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03294 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ksmm@threespace.com) Received: from shell1.cybercom.net (ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net [209.21.136.6]) by zephyr.cybercom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24868; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:33:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ksmm@localhost) by shell1.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA22353; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:33:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.cybercom.net: ksmm owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:33:13 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive X-Sender: ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net To: jmw cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Editor suggestions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org emacs is the consummate editor which will allow you to do everything from editing/compiling code to reading e-mail. Its platform independence makes it a good choice if you plan to use other UNIX systems as well. Learning to use the advanced features will take some time, however. K.S. On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, jmw wrote: : : Hello, : : Now that I've been using FreeBSD for a few weeks, and feeling a bit : more comfortable with it, I would like to start porting over some : of my own DOS based utilities to FreeBSD. : : However, I've been spoiled up to this point by using the varies : development environments that both Borland and DJGPP's RHide provide. : I am curious what most Unix folk use for the "ideal" programmers editor. : Ideal is rather subjective, but at least it will give me some ideas as to : what I should be looking for. :) : : Suggestions? : : Thanks again for your time, : John Wilson : : : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org : with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message