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 -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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