Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:51:03 -0400 From: "Mikhail V. Evstiounin" <evs@telerama.com> To: "Ben Smithurst" <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, "Rusty" <irisinc@gci.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Editors?? Message-ID: <051801bee618$ff9f8300$6f27abcd@mvehpc.evs.slip.lm.com>
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You can try:
Joe's Own Editor v2.8 ** Copyright (C) 1995 Joseph H. Allen
It's WordPerfect like (I mean commands), but could be easily
adjusted for lots different styles, including PICO. I was able
to instal it on HP-UX 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, AIX, Dynix/PTX, SCO,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc. :-)
This is a direct quote from a man page:
JOE(1) JOE(1)
Name
joe - Joe's Own Editor
Syntax
joe [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
jstar [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
jmacs [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
rjoe [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
jpico [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
Description
JOE is a powerful ASCII-text screen editor. It has a
"mode-less" user interface which is similer to many user-
friendly PC editors. Users of Micro-Pro's WordStar or
Borland's "Turbo" languages will feel at home. JOE is a
full featured UNIX screen-editor though, and has many fea-
tures for editing programs and text.
JOE also emulates several other editors. JSTAR is a close
immitation of WordStar with many "JOE" extensions. JPICO
is a close immitation of the Pine mailing system's PICO
editor, but with many extensions and improvements. JMACS
is a GNU-EMACS immitation. RJOE is a restricted version
of JOE, which allowes you to edit only the files specified
on the command line.
Although JOE is actually five different editors, it still
requires only one executable, but one with five different
names. The name of the editor with an "rc" appended gives
the name of JOE's initialization file, which determines
the personality of the editor.
JOE is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation. I have no
plans for turning JOE into a commercial or share-ware
product. JOE is available over the Internet by anonymous
FTP from ftp.std.com, file: src/editors/joe*.tar.Z.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Rusty <irisinc@gci.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Editors??
>Rusty wrote:
>
>> I have one question which I hope will not start a flame war; Is there a
>> text editor for freebsd that is like PICO, if possible. If I have to
>> learn and use vi, I'll go back to Windoz.
>
>Please consider learning a more advanced editor than pico, either vi or
>emacs. I've never got along well with emacs, but vi really isn't hard to
>learn. But if you really don't want to, no-one can force you, and you've
>had enough answers about where to get pico already. What don't you like
>about vi? When I started with FreeBSD, I used ee to edit things, or
>sometimes pico. I can tell you that vi is *much* nicer than both of
>those put together, once you learn the basics.
>
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