From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 23 12:32:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889F614CB4 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991123153032.60087@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:30:32 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Alfred Perlstein , James A Wilde Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 12:49:10PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 23 November 1999 at 12:49:10 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, James A Wilde wrote: > >> Related question from a greenhorn. >> >> Most of my editing is administrative editing of configuration >> files and the like. For that vi is a pita with all that programmers >> crap. The only functionality I use is x for delete, i for input, >> Alt $ for goto eol (I don't know how you get to the beginning) and >> d with the down arrow to remove two lines, which means that I often >> have to insert a line first in order to delete the one line I need >> to remove. >> >> Is there for UNIX something with the lack of complexity of the >> DOS edit program? Simple marking, cutting, pasting is all I really >> need. >> >> Thanks for any tips. > > you may want to try 'ee' it comes with freebsd and keeps it's help > at the top. OK, so James is a newbie^H^H^H^H^H^Hgreenhorn now, but he probably won't stay that way. I think it's counterproductive to recommend dead-end editors like ee. Oh yes, and you should try Emacs [ducks] Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message