From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 10:33:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0401153A5 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:33:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12255; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:32:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:32:53 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: James A Wilde Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991124103253.B2554@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <00e101bf3681$44cb04a0$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <00e101bf3681$44cb04a0$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se>; from james.wilde@telia.com on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 02:39:01PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. and moves out of the war zone> . 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 -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" --Thomas Jefferson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message