Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:32:53 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991124103253.B2554@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <00e101bf3681$44cb04a0$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se>; from james.wilde@telia.com on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 02:39:01PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231240360.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <00e101bf3681$44cb04a0$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se>
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On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 02:39:01PM +0100, James A Wilde wrote:
> Two quickies:
>
> 1) Thanks to all who have helped with a) suggestions about ee, which
> I'll try, and b) hints on some other useful commands I can use in vi.
> My competence in vi has doubled overnight!
I'm a vi user. If you really want that Windows look and feel, and you
are running X you might take a look at nedit in the ports tree. You'll
have to install Motif or Lestif, but it was designed to be a decent
editor for Mac and Windows users.
> 2) Sorry that my messages have had no eol breaks in them. For email
> I mostly live in the sheltered world of Windows which takes care of
> that kind of thing for you. I will try and make sure I put in CRLF
> at appropriate places in messages to this - and other UNIX - mailing
> lists to which I subscribe.
There should be a configuration option to wrap your messages to a
specific number of characters, use it.
> And I don't really think vi is crap. It's just that the only thing
> less intuitive in its natural state than vi is probably emacs. <ducks
> and moves out of the war zone> <grin>.
You aren't going to get any argument from me there. ;-) Actually, if
you're going to spend much time in UNIX, you should at least have
basic proficiency with vi since it's always there and emacs may not
be.
-- Brooks
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