From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 20 19: 0:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAFD15849 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 19:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA12293; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 19:26:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 19:26:57 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Ryan Thompson [FreeBSD]" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? In-Reply-To: <38375433.193946BF@sasknow.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Ryan Thompson [FreeBSD] wrote: > Hi all; > > As many of us here are programmers, and do so in FreeBSD, I reasoned > that this would be great place to find out what console text editors > people use. Before this thread even gets going, though, let's remember > not to start a flamewar, and move relevant parts to -chat :-) I like gvim, it's _very_ vi like, has syntax highlighting, and support for auto-indent and tags. I would suggest giving it a whirl, as a bonus it's pretty responsive when run over a ssh-forwarded X connection. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message