From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 12 13:57: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CECC37B71B for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:56:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cschindl@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac2.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.142]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17301; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:56:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA29186; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:56:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (cschindl@localhost) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29180; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:56:31 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac2.wam.umd.edu: cschindl owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:56:31 -0500 (EST) From: "c. schindler" To: David Johnson Cc: Doug Young , FreeBSD-newbies Subject: Re: Enough is enough (emacs vs vi) In-Reply-To: <3AAD3CB8.152300F9@acuson.com> 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 i agree. vi is very powerful editor once u get comfortable with it. pico is decent for newbies, but if your are writing large scale programs, vi is better for maneuvering through all those lines of code. ---------------- chris news for freeBSD-newbies, stuff that really matters On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, David Johnson wrote: > Doug Young wrote: > > > > Actually I still have nightmares thinking about trying to get anything to > > work in linux. > > I'm messing around with OpenBSD at present (which doesn't have "ee") so > > there > > doesn't appear to be any immediate alternative to VI .... mind you pico is > > high on > > the list of apps to install. > > Of course, use what you want, but every Unix system will have vi, but > might not have ee or pico. It might not be the easiest, but vi is > something that newbies should learn. You don't have to learn all the vi > commands, but only a few of them can take you a long ways. > > David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message