Date: 10 Jan 2002 10:32:01 -0600 From: James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: jacks@sage-american.com, Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Editors in base FBSD Message-ID: <867kqqmake.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> In-Reply-To: <20020107102311.G45844@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOMEIDCLAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> <3.0.5.32.20020106095140.01937458@mail.sage-american.com> <20020107102311.G45844@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > I can't possibly think of a worse solution. I've never seen a > Microsoft-based telnet client that wasn't broken, the telnet protocol > is insecure, and I've never seen a really good editor which runs under > Microsoft. What about: GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-*-nt4.0.1381) of Tue Jun 13 2000 on buffy Hmmm? ;) And PuTTY works pretty well as far as I'm concerned for telnet and ssh from M$ machines. > And now the obligatory Emacs plug. Yes, you *can* use the mouse with > Emacs. Yes, you *can* cut, copy and paste (much more easily than with > Microsoft). From time to time I have visitors here who have never > used UNIX of any flavour, but who want to read (and reply to) their > mail. I've given them Emacs to play with (under X, of course), no > instruction, and they were able to cope. On the other hand, Emacs is > much more powerful than anything I've ever seen under Microsoft > (including the Microsoft port of Emacs, available in the Cygwin > package). For editing and dired stuff I use the native NT port of emacs. Of course it can't do many things which require a Unix environment but I think it's still a powerful editor. I set it up to use the Cygwin utilities as much as possible, however I had to reinstall Cygwin recently and can't get RCS to build. I did it before...oh well. However, IIRC, the original question was about base systems editors and emacs -- as much as we love it -- is not in the base distribution. One could find the information by doing a keyword search of the man pages e.g. "man -k editor" or "apropos editor" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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