From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 08:10:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325D116A4BF for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m03.mx.aol.com (imo-m03.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFBC43FD7 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:10:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Robertdkeys@aol.com) Received: from Robertdkeys@aol.com by imo-m03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id r.1e2.f591953 (2168); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:10:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Robertdkeys@aol.com Message-ID: <1e2.f591953.2c875e64@aol.com> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:10:28 EDT To: gsam@trini0.org, questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows sub 109 Subject: Re: Suggestions to a command line editor X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:10:34 -0000 If you are serious about editing, it is probably wise to at least be proficient in ed and vi. Everything else beyond that is eye candy..... no editor wars intended. Ed will dig you out of deep holes when all you have is your root fs and everything else has gone to hades in a handbasket. Vi will do everything else and not eat up every system resource in town. Both are pretty much standard on every current form of *nix. Anything else will be iffy, and if not standard you will have to roll in your own toolkit. If you are the admin on the machine, no problem. If you aren't,.....maybe. Good Luck Bob Keys