From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 12:27:00 2003 Return-Path: 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 18E3637B401 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 12:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.openserve.net (mail.openserve.net [208.12.101.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CED543F3F for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 12:26:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@hub3.net) Received: (qmail 61789 invoked from network); 30 May 2003 19:26:55 -0000 Received: from gw.hub3.net (HELO hub3.net) (bryan@208.12.101.245) by mail.openserve.net with SMTP; 30 May 2003 19:26:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:26:54 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: HG From: Bryan Vyhmeister In-Reply-To: <000701c326e0$091b4de0$0400a8c0@amdk62400> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any recommended simple text editors????? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 19:27:00 -0000 On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 12:16 PM, HG wrote: > Hi All, > > I am looking for a simple text editor that i can use when > i connect to the freebsd box with an ssh client (no x window) > that supports vt100 or vt400 (called putty.exe) . > Should also be able to connect to a linux box by recompiling > source for the linux computer. > > There are so many editors listed in the packages cd , can > anyone recommend one in particular > > Prefered is one that is menu driven with no keystrokes > to remember other than the common keys on the pc > keyboard : delete , arrows , backspace etc. Pico is relatively simple. Pico is typically the editor for the pine email client. I used when I first started out in Linux. By the time I moved over to FreeBSD, vi or vim was my editor of choice and mutt was my email client. You probably won't want to use vi or vim because it is not necessarily intuitive. It is extremely efficient and great to work with after you get used to it though. It was one of the best things I learned to use. Hope that helps. Bryan