From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 20:25:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4EA41571B for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 20:25:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2ivebet.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.45.221]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA18678; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:23:42 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38893097.E6D13ACA@confusion.net> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:22:47 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vigor. I think Bill Fumerola just put it in the ports too... Vigor is scary, yet amusing http://www.userfriendly.org for the origins of vigor. In all seriousness, I've been using emacs for programming, and vi for config files and they like. One thing I haven't found yet is a good html-oriented editor with color syntax highlighting and such, though I've heard good things about the Amaya web browser. For cut and paste I run klipper for X, and within emacs there's plenty of functionality. Hope I've helped, Laurence Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Not to start a war or anything, but i'm trying to decide on a fast > powerful editor. I've been using joe, and i just started learning vi, > and i like it so far. But there are new editors and new versions of > vi that seem to have a lot to offer. I've narrowed it down to vi, an > enhanced version of vi (vile or vim?) uemacs, or joe. ANy > thoughts? I'd like to be able to cut and paste within the editor and > between xterms. I really like the efficiency of vi so far, but i have > a long ways to go before i am proficient. > > -=> jm <=- > > "I've done questionable things, also extraordinary things.... > Revel in your time!" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 2000 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message