From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 23 13:27:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B38014E73 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:26:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from jazz.monsterbymistake.com (jazz.monsterbymistake.com[205.207.163.189]) by mail.monsterbymistake.com (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #3; 1998-Sep-25) (2086 bytes) via sendmail with /P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp id (sender ident using rfc1413) for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:17:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:36:06 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek To: James A Wilde Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? In-Reply-To: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, James A Wilde wrote: |Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:10:49 +0100 |From: James A Wilde |To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG |Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? | |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. | |mvh/regards | |James Wilde | I suggest that you really try and learn vim (vi if you must..) much more rewarding in the end. There's also xemacs' but I could never get used to having my editor open all the time. There are good tutorials for both. I used to only be able to use 'jot' under IRIX ... it's much more productive to know a good editor though. If vi(m) really scares you then try `pico`. use "0" to goto the beginning of a line and "I" to insert at the beginning and "A" to append to the end of the line. http://www.vim.org good luck, =derek Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message