From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 27 17:42:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04811 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:42:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from send1e.yahoomail.com (send1e.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA04767 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:42:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from master_incubus@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19981228013738.2709.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com> Received: from [204.148.82.161] by send1e; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:37:38 PST Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:37:38 -0800 (PST) From: Tony Bucciao Subject: Re: environment for programming- Context Colored To: Evgeny Roubinchtein , "K. Marsh" Cc: "q's" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Now here is an option: Lemmy... It is a WIN95 based editor which emulates the vi editor...I believe you can color coat your scripting with this program. Once you are done with writing the program in Lemmy transfer it to your bsd box. I don't have the url for lemmy on me right now...sorry. Hope this helps, Tony ---Evgeny Roubinchtein wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, K. Marsh wrote: > > (can't help you on the first question, sorry :-) > >Do vi, emacs, others have similar features? > > GNU emacs has font-lock mode, just like xemacs does, if you like to have > it everywhere, the info file that comes with GNU emacs, suggests you use: > > (global-font-lock-mode t) > (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t) > > in your .emacs. It also suggests: > > (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode) > > to make it faster on large files. > > To my knowledge, nvi -- the "vi" you get with freebsd -- doesn't have > color higlighting, but (x)vile, elvis, and vim all do. Both xvile and vim > are in ports/editors -- vim5 has syntax highlighting, I don't think vim4 > does. VIM is a really neat vi superset, by the way. > > -- > Evgeny Roubinchtein, eroubinc@u.washington.edu > ................... > Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence... > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message