Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:04:40 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Ryan Thompson [FreeBSD]" <freebsd@sasknow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991121120440.E48139@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <38375433.193946BF@sasknow.com> References: <38375433.193946BF@sasknow.com>
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-On [19991121 04:00], Ryan Thompson [FreeBSD] (freebsd@sasknow.com) wrote: >I currently use lpe (I downloaded/compiled, but there's a slightly dated >version available in ports, last time I checked). I do a great deal of >development in Perl and Java, with copious amounts of C(++) and HTML >thrown in. lpe handles the syntax highlighting for all of these (and >the colours aren't that bad, either :-) /usr/ports/editors/vim5 support all of those as well. >The only things I find (more than slightly) annoying about lpe is its >lack of auto-indent, and lack of configuration options (most, if not >all persistent configuration options must be compiled in). >Not-so-slightly annoying is its lack of automatic indents (i.e. tab >width indent after a curly { brace). Admittedly, lpe isn't built for >power, but it turns out to be a good all-around editor. vim supports auto-indent and is customizable as hell. I mean, my settings for SGML differ greatly from what I use to produce style(9) compliant C-code. Every indenting feature you could possibly want is in vim. And if you don't see it, ask the vim list, they're a great bunch. >If I had a large programming project sprawled over many source files, >admittedly, I'd move over to something more like emacs... But, for the >day to day edits and smaller projects, lpe is about the best I've found, >and walks with a very small footprint. I used emacs and disliked it. Too bloated for what I want. IIRC vim supports folding now to, or it is at least high on the list. Try it. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai> Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Learn e-mail netiquette: http://www.lemis.com/email.html Once sent from the Golden Hall... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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