From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 3:41:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A67155F4 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 03:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james.wilde@telia.com) Received: from ents02 (t2o90p66.telia.com [195.67.216.186]) by mailc.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA12937; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:40:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <00f701bf64cd$95186360$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> From: "James A Wilde" To: "Jonathon McKitrick" , References: Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:41:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thoughts, yes! I asked nearly the same question a few months ago. The conclusion I came to was: stick to vi for two reasons: 1) it is on every UNIX machine in the world, apparently, so you always have it there, which can't be said of some of the others. 2) the first editor you use in any environment is often the one you finally think is best. This is true of any program group. Stick with vi. You will soon get used to it. I went so far as to d/l a shareware proggy - or maybe it was free - which emulates vi on my NT machines. I have to say that I have forgotten to use it much, since the excellent Programmers File Editor is automatically configured for txt, log and many other text-only files. mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message