From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 5:36:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22EB37B406 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 05:36:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:36:21 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Mike Meyer , Chris Aitken Subject: Re: Simple Editor for a newbie? - inc color Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:36:06 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15243.25075.83512.512719@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15243.25075.83512.512719@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01082808360606.26623@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Both emacs and some sorts of vi (xvile, at least) will do the syntax highlighting, but neither of them have any place in a discussion about simple editors for newbies," IMHO. Of course, learning either a vi-ish editor or emacs is well worth it in the long run. On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:18, Mike Meyer wrote: > Chris Aitken 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 Meyer 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 -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message