From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 13 8:47:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF1A14F3E for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.024 #3) id 11FJF9-000B2y-00; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:27:43 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.024 #3) id 11FJF8-0003qL-00; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:27:42 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:27:42 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Rusty Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Editors?? Message-ID: <19990813162742.B14699@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <37B2C206.47AE543E@gci.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37B2C206.47AE543E@gci.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rusty wrote: > I have one question which I hope will not start a flame war; Is there a > text editor for freebsd that is like PICO, if possible. If I have to > learn and use vi, I'll go back to Windoz. Please consider learning a more advanced editor than pico, either vi or emacs. I've never got along well with emacs, but vi really isn't hard to learn. But if you really don't want to, no-one can force you, and you've had enough answers about where to get pico already. What don't you like about vi? When I started with FreeBSD, I used ee to edit things, or sometimes pico. I can tell you that vi is *much* nicer than both of those put together, once you learn the basics. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message