From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 7 11:02:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07393 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:02:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.auracom.net (root@mail1.auracom.net [165.154.140.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07283 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arthur@col.auracom.com) Received: from outpost.col.auracom.com (ts2-25.tru.auracom.com [165.154.114.89]) by mail1.auracom.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15890; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:07:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 15:02:32 -0300 (ADT) From: arthur To: jmw Subject: RE: Editor suggestions Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 07-Jul-98 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? > ... Well when it comes to editors, there are a few to choose from, but if you're looking for one that you'll find in most unix varients you might want to take the time to learn vi. pico and ee are also nice, my personal favorite is ee. > Thanks again for your time, > John Wilson - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - arthur@col.auracom.com In a world without fences, is there a need for gates --end-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message