From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 20:56:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B944B37B41B; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:56:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g074u5x04924; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:56:05 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200201070456.g074u5x04924@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: parv Cc: Greg Lehey , Joe & Fhe Barbish , FBSD Questions Subject: Re: Editors in base FBSD In-Reply-To: <20020107015648.GB28691@moo.holy.cow> From: Chris Fedde Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 21:56:05 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:56:48 -0500 parv wrote: +------------------ | let me put my us 2 cents worth ... for three years i used the ispf | editor on os/390. and every time i had edited a file, i longed for vi. | | editing on a machine (local pc) other than where files were located | (mainframe) was more time consuming, even if i would get to use my | favourite editor, than using the ispf and cursing it. +------------------ Emacs has a mode called (I think) ange-ftp. In this mode it uses FTP to hide the fact that you are editing files on a remote computer. It does not take too much creativity to do a similar thing by wrapping VI in an scp sandwich to do a similar thing. Still I understand the OP's lament. It is inconvenient to have to use an environment that you are not familiar with. I find myself typing all kind of 'k's and 'j's when I edit something using wordpad or some other bit or redmondware. -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message