From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 11 0:57:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FD737B400 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 00:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g5B7vap83879 ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:57:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id JAA16885 ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:57:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:57:36 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gui editors - mostly just griping (you've been warned) I gotta vent somewhere. Message-ID: <20020611095736.A16127@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chip.wiegand@simrad.com on Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:26:28PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org chip.wiegand@simrad.com said on Jun 10, 2002 at 15:26:28: > I have spent a large part of my day trying various gui editors, Are you looking specifically for a HTML editor? Bluefish is a HTML editor, not a general purpose editor. It didn't crash when I used it last, but that was ages ago, version 0.3 or something. I haven't heard of the other editors you mention. > the ports. All I really want is an editor that will > copy/paste/undo/redo, search/replace, syntax highlight for html/php, > keep the prefences from one session to the next, Looks like you don't really want a html editor, only syntax highlighting. People have suggested nedit. There's also gvim and (x)emacs, since you specify GUI editors. I use gvim (or vim in an xterm, but gvim also has a scrollbar, menus, better mouse support etc): it supports syntax highlighting for just about any language you can think of and I think if you're comfortable with vi keystrokes it's really the best choice. I thought vi and emacs were the only Unix editors anyway... R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message