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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:18:43 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Simple Editor for a newbie? - inc color
Message-ID:  <15243.25075.83512.512719@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <54233422@toto.iv>

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Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> 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.

	<mike
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