From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 15 21:38:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05437 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:38:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from minos.dyn.ml.org (dominus@client-151-197-112-173.bellatlantic.net [151.197.112.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05415 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:38:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (dominus@localhost) by minos.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA00655; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 00:38:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org) X-Authentication-Warning: minos.dyn.ml.org: dominus owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 00:38:11 -0400 (EDT) From: James X-Sender: dominus@minos.dyn.ml.org Reply-To: higginsj@iname.com To: Tim Gerchmez cc: higginsj@iname.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A first encounter with 'vi' In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980615212226.007f76c0@mx.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > At 12:06 AM 6/16/98 -0400, you wrote: > > >When DOS Edit can give me my macos, auto correction, and keybinds, I will > >use it. Until then I will stick to vi. Last time I checked DOS edit was > >still limited to 64k files. They might have changed it in Win95/NT, but > >who cares, I have vi. > > Just FYI... they did change it. No longer limited to 64k. Macros, > auto-correct, keybinds, etc? Sounds like you need a word processor, not a > text editor (?). Marcros are great for programming. You still have to edit basic text and make simple typos, auto correct fixes that, and I like adding functionality to unused command keys. vi gives me all that. > >If you are that desperate for a better editor try EMACS, Jed, Jove, Joe, > >or pico. Trying to piss people off is not a way to accomplish anything. > > I'm happy enough with ee for casual text editing. Pico is not offered as a > FreeBSD package (it may be in the ports collection tho, I dunno... I don't > have the ports collection installed due to no easy way to download tarballs). Pico is the editor used with the Pine mail package. Install pine and it should be there. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message