From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 2:18:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14E6737B406 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 02:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 68577 invoked by uid 100); 28 Aug 2001 09:18:43 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15243.25075.83512.512719@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:18:43 -0500 To: Chris Aitken Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple Editor for a newbie? - inc color In-Reply-To: <54233422@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Chris Aitken types: > At 02:19 AM 28/08/2001, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >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. > > One thing ive been searching for but havent had any luck finding is > something like pico or even the above mentioned Joe but one that uses like > ANSI colors for programming etc. I mostly use PHP and have found several > doze editors which do it, but havent found an easy to use unix editor that > had color coding in it. I dont wanna do it on a doze box because I wanna be > able to modify the files live and not screw around with ftp connections and > uploads to test it. (and I still havent had the time to master the > intricacies of VIM yet. > > Anyone found anything like this ? Xemacs - and presumably stock emacs - will do syntax-directed color coding. I'm not sure if there's a PHP mode as I haven't gone looking for one, but there are a number of HTML modes, and even a SGML/XML mode. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message