From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 23 13:31:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219C2153BA for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:31:43 -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 NAA14927; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:58:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:58:40 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Greg Lehey Cc: James A Wilde , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? In-Reply-To: <19991123153032.60087@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 23 November 1999 at 12:49:10 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, James A Wilde wrote: > > > >> Related question from a greenhorn. > >> > >> Most of my editing is administrative editing of configuration > >> files and the like. For that vi is a pita with all that programmers > >> crap. The only functionality I use is x for delete, i for input, > >> Alt $ for goto eol (I don't know how you get to the beginning) and > >> d with the down arrow to remove two lines, which means that I often > >> have to insert a line first in order to delete the one line I need > >> to remove. > >> > >> Is there for UNIX something with the lack of complexity of the > >> DOS edit program? Simple marking, cutting, pasting is all I really > >> need. > >> > >> Thanks for any tips. > > > > you may want to try 'ee' it comes with freebsd and keeps it's help > > at the top. > > OK, so James is a newbie^H^H^H^H^H^Hgreenhorn now, but he probably > won't stay that way. I think it's counterproductive to recommend > dead-end editors like ee. > > Oh yes, and you should try Emacs [ducks] http://swarm.wustl.edu/~jxh/ed.html :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message