From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 20:40:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cybersurf.net (smtp2.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC55E37B407 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from 3web.net ([209.197.153.165]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GIRE7O00.MFO for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:40:36 -0600 Received: by 3web.net (EzMTS MTSAgent 1.22b Service) ; Mon, 27 Aug 01 21:40:34 -0600 for Received: from 3web.net (127.0.0.1) by 3web.net (EzMTS MTSSmtp 1.50 Service) ; Mon, 27 Aug 01 21:30:23 -0600 for Received: by mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:30:10 +4200 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:30:08 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: Simple Editor for a newbie? Message-ID: <20010827213007.D124775@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Freebsd Questions References: <3B89D9CA.9F0ECF29@citystamp.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com> <20010828021942.A50163@student.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010828021942.A50163@student.uu.se>; from "Erik Trulsson" on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:19:43AM X-Envelope-Receiver: 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 Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:19:43AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:57:08PM -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote: [snip] > > I know some of you will say that VI is the only way but please understand > > that at the beginning VI is very hard to master. We do not want to develop > > a perl scrip for this since we wanted first to feel comfortable with an > > editor we can use on daily life to take a look at logs, configuration > > files, scripts etc. > > > > Any suggestion? > > > My personal favourite text-editor is 'joe'. Available from ports. > It is quite easy to use but still fairly powerful. > It might not be quite as powerful as vi or emacs but it is IMO a lot > easier to use. > I "second that emotion" la la la laaaaa ;) Gee that dates me... Jorge ... from one newbie to another, don't use *anything* else but Joe at the onset of your Unix escapade. The stress and convolution levels are high enough -- Joe is a fresh breeze. Some say Jed is "familiar" and easy to use as well -- but I have no first hand knowledge of it. L8r... -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message