From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 26 9: 0: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.visualedge.com (visualedge.com [207.139.24.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ACB114E98 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:00:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from martinm@visualedge.com) Received: from pony by vedge with SMTP (8.6.11/) id LAA16686; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:56:57 -0400 Message-ID: <002201bf1fcb$4d7e53d0$a600a8c0@visualedge.com> From: "Martin Mactaggart" To: "FreeBSD Newbies" , "David Wolfskill" References: <199910261353.GAA25678@pau-amma.whistle.com> Subject: Re: easy to use editor and CVSUP Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 12:00:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org there's also mcedit, but I don't know if it's around for FreeBSD... You have the linux emulation stuff you can download it from redhat in one form or another... It's basically like ms-dos's edit.com, but with syntax highlighting. vi, IMHO, is pure evil... It screams "I am line editor going through an identity crisis!!!" at me every time I use it; if I am going to learning different commands and be switching modes and Lord knows what else, I want to have just mastered an OS, not a text editor. Just an opinion. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Wolfskill To: ; Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 9:53 AM Subject: RE: easy to use editor and CVSUP >Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:23:05 +0700 (NOVST) >From: "Rashid N. Achilov" >> So my question is: Is there any easy to use editor that doesn't require Xfree86? something along the lines of emacs >> or the good old edit in MS-DOS... >I think, ee is good editor. In my ordynary work I don't use ee, but at fresh installed FreeBSD it's good. Determining what aspects of an editor are good vs. bad is an extremely subjective matter. It is possible to use Emacs without an X Window display. I have no idea what "good old edit in MS-DOS" is/was like. I tend to use "vi" because I'm used to it -- enough that I find ee extremely counterintuitive and confusing. One of my colleagues pointed out "vim" to me, and I've started poking around with it. There are over 50 entries in /usr/ports/editors; culling variant versions, that makes on the order of 40 or so fairly distinct editors at hand. Then there are ed, sed, ex, and vi that are distributed with the system. And pico is part of the "pine" package. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 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