From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 02:08:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 ACCBD16A41F for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:08:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D699343D48 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:08:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8T28rZu097079 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j8T28rfD097077 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:08:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:08:47 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20050929020847.GA96941@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Subject: dream editor X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:08:59 -0000 Folks, This may be considered OT by some, but it hits home with me given my continual use of editors/WP's. My dream word processor or an Gnome app like gedit would include at least a few vi-isms. (I've known about xemacs for years; it has a vi-like drops, so the user has that option. ) I'm also familiar with vim and gvim. --I just found the autoindent feature in gedit. How much work (and it is serious hacking) to integrate the some of vi into a GUI/Gnome or KDE editor? I like the newer AbiWord and the growing stability of OO. But my fingers have been using vi BillJoy finished it. vi beats the hell out of (forgive me!) ed. I'm likely among the few who this matters to; but I'd like to see some reasoned discussion. Flames to /dev/null, please. gary PS: Didn't "knews" let people reply with a large vi-like thing that popped up? -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix