Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:27:26 -0500 From: "Jerry Dunham" <jdunham@texas.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Robin, Michael" <robin@chapman.edu> Subject: Re: text editor Message-ID: <503D53DE.25328.F71B7BB@jdunham.texas.net> In-Reply-To: <D3E0D46DA47D9749A75DA627A9E47CE94B38E6B6@CUP-EXMB01.chapman.edu> References: <D3E0D46DA47D9749A75DA627A9E47CE94B38E69A@CUP-EXMB01.chapman.edu>, <0ac101cd856b$ef1220f0$cd3662d0$@freebsd.org>, <D3E0D46DA47D9749A75DA627A9E47CE94B38E6B6@CUP-EXMB01.chapman.edu>
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On 28 Aug 2012 at 22:41, Robin, Michael wrote: > What is VIM? Where could it be downloaded? > What is CLI? I am looking for GUI/command prompt text editor for Windows 7/8. > The notepad plus program lacks start/end block setting option even > though it have a lot of hot keys. My top priority is setting > start/end block option which was available for old DOS-based text > editor, but I have not seen any window-based text editor for this > option. 16-bit DOS text editor program will not run on 64-bit > operating system. "CLI" is "command line interface", what you're calling a command prompt. I came late to Windows, having run FreeBSD exclusively for quite a few years before trying out the Dark Side. As a result, my text editor of choice on Windows is gvim. I'm currently running 7.2, and it integrates with the right-click context menu. I believe it has all the functions you need. If you've never used anything in the vi family there's a steep initial learning curve, but once you get past that it should do the job well enough to satisfy all but the most dedicated emacs users. Check out: http://www.vim.org/ I hope this helps. -- Jerry Dunham Moderator, Texas Great Dane Rescue jdunham@texas.net
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