Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:08:28 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice Message-ID: <20000122150828.D390@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001212336460.34039-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:39:12PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001212336460.34039-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Friday, 21 January 2000 at 23:39:12 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Not to start a war or anything, but i'm trying to decide on a fast > powerful editor. I've been using joe, and i just started learning > vi, and i like it so far. But there are new editors and new > versions of vi that seem to have a lot to offer. I've narrowed it > down to vi, an enhanced version of vi (vile or vim?) uemacs, or joe. > ANy thoughts? If you want a really powerful editor, and you don't want to relearn the way you think, you'd be better off using real Emacs than uemacs, which is a bit of a toy. vi and its derivatives are also powerful, but they require a lot of rethinking, and I don't think they're as powerful anyway. > I'd like to be able to cut and paste within the editor and between > xterms. You can only do that up to a point with vi. vi doesn't understand X, so it runs in an xterm. Emacs in X mode will copy the last cut text to the X cut buffer, so you can paste it into an xterm, but also use it in Emacs. > I really like the efficiency of vi so far, but i have a long ways to > go before i am proficient. It's a steep curve. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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